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Confessions d'un Barjo (1992)

Confessions d'un Barjo poster
Directed by
Jérôme Boivin
Genre
melodrama
Country
France
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man living in rural France observes the chaotic life of his sister and her husband. Their strained marriage and personal failures unfold through his eyes.

melancholicintrospectivedysfunctionaloffbeatslow-burndomesticbleakcharacter-driven

What happens

Barjo (French: Confessions d'un Barjo) is a 1992 French film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's non-science fiction novel Confessions of a Crap Artist, originally written in 1959 and published in 1975, the only non-science fiction novel of Dick's to be published in his lifetime. The film was directed by Jérôme Boivin and written by Jacques Audiard and Jérôme Boivin, and stars Anne Brochet, Richard Bohringer and Hippolyte Girardot. "Barjo" translates as "nutcase" or "nut job". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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