| Barjo | |
| Native Name: | Confessions d'un Barjo |
| Director: | Jérôme Boivin |
| Producer: | Françoise Galfré (exec. prod.) Patrick Godeau |
| Starring: | Anne Brochet Richard Bohringer Hippolyte Girardot |
| Music: | Hugues Le Bars |
| Cinematography: | Jean-Claude Larrieu |
| Editing: | Anne Lafarge |
| Distributor: | Myriad Pictures (U.S.) |
| Runtime: | 85 minutes |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
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.[1] "Barjo" translates as "nutcase" or "nut job".
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.