Barjo Movie Review 1993

In a bland and isolated French suburb lives willful housewife Fanfan (Bouchet) with her older businessman husband Charles (Bohringer) and her eccentric twin brother Barjo (Girardot). Barjo is obsessed with lists and extraterrestrials and his sister's affair with their next-door neighbor, which he likes to spy on. Her husband naturally begins to go crazy. Deadpan satire based on the novel "Confessions of a Crap Artist" by Philip K. Dick. The post-WWII American setting of the novel makes a decidedly uneasy transistion to contemporary French life. In French with English subtitles.

Distribution

Wellspring Media, A Division of Genius Products, Inc., 2230 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90904, Phone: (310)453-1222, Fax: (310)453-0074, URL: http://www.wellspring.com

Available on VHS
Running time 85 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Black Comedy, Marriage, Brothers & Sisters, Satire & Parody, Books to Film: Phillip K. Dick

Screenplay

Jerome Boivin, Jacques Audiard

Cast

Anne Brochet, Hippolyte Girardot, Richard Bohringer, Consuelo de Haviland, Renaud Danner, Nathalie Boutefeu

Director

Jerome Boivin

Music

Hugues LeBars

Producer

Patrick Godeau, Myriad Pictures