Barjo

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Barjo ★★ 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 nextdoor 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 postWWII American setting of the novel makes a decidedly uneasy transistion to contemporary French life. In French with English subtitles. 85m/C VHS . FR Anne Brochet, Hippolyte Girardot, Richard Bohringer, Consuelo de Haviland, Renaud Danner, Nathalie Boutefeu; D: Jerome Boivin; W: Jerome Boivin, Jacques Audiard; M: Hugues LeBars.