The narrator, "Barjo" (nutcase, crap artist), is an obsessive simpleton, given to filling his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of the world. When his house burns, he moves in with his twin sister, Fanfan -- an impulsive, quixotic egoist -- and her husband, Charles, the Aluminum King. Charles becomes the focus of the film, as his wife and brother-in-law bewilder him.
Acting
Girardot's vacant intensity — he IS the notebook.
Writing
Philip K. Dick adaptation that actually honors his paranoia.
Director
Jérôme Boivin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Philip K. Dick's only non-sci-fi novel, 'Confessions of a Crap Artist,' written in 1959 but published posthumously in 1975.
Boivin made this between cult horror 'Baby Blood' and never directed again — French cinema's most baffling one-hit wonder trajectory.
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