Confessions d'un Barjo

Confessions d'un Barjo
Confessions d'un Barjo
(Barjo)

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Directed by Jérôme Boivin
Produced by Françoise Galfré (exec. prod.)
Patrick Godeau
Written by Philip K. Dick (novel)
Jacques Audiard
Jérôme Boivin
Starring Anne Brochet
Richard Bohringer
Hippolyte Girardot
Music by Hugues Le Bars
Cinematography Jean-Claude Larrieu
Editing by Anne Lafarge
Distributed by Myriad Pictures (US)
Release date(s) 13 May 1992 (France)
7 July 1993 (US)
23 February 1994
(US video)
Running time 85 minutes
Country France
Language French

Confessions d'un Barjo (known as Barjo for the English-language market) 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," "nut job" or "crap artist".

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Plot

Barjo (Hippolyte Girardot) is eccentric, naive and obsessive. After he accidentally burns down his house during a "scientific" experiment, he moves in with his impulsive twin sister Fanfan (Anne Brochet), who is married to Charles "the Aluminum King" (Richard Bohringer). In his new surroundings, Barjo continues his old habits: cataloging old science magazines, testing bizarre inventions and filling his notebooks with his observations about human behavior and his thoughts about the end of the world. Through Barjo's journals we see the development of conflict and sexual tension between Fanfan and Charles, and the descent of Charles into madness.

Cast

  • Richard Bohringer as Charles
  • Anne Brochet as Fanfan
  • Hippolyte Girardot as Barjo
  • Consuelo De Haviland as Madame Hermelin
  • Renaud Danner as Michel
  • Nathalie Boutefeu as Gwen
  • Jac Berrocal as Mage Gerardini
  • El Kebir as Le gardien de l'usine
  • Louise-Laure Mariani as Petite fille
  • Gilliane Sanki as Petite fille
  • Camille Gentet as Fanfan enfant
  • Charles-Elie Rouart as Barjo enfant
  • Lise Péault as Irene Siccora
  • Bertie Cortez as Capitaine Cosmo
  • Anne Bailly as La femme métal
  • Jean-Louis Lapassade as Le père
  • Stéphanie Nataf as L'infirmière chef
  • Olivier Coutard as Un pilote du vaisseau spatial
  • Jean-Pascal Chalard as Un pilote du vaisseau spatial
  • Yves Boivin as Cosmonaute chef
  • Roy Lekus as Marmiton
  • Jean-François Pierrard as Un invité au mariage
  • Alain Robak as Infirmier

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1980s
1990s
Total Recall (1990) · Confessions d'un Barjo (1992) · Screamers (1995)
2000s
Impostor (2002) · Minority Report (2002) · Paycheck (2003) · A Scanner Darkly (2006) · Next (2007) · Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
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