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Confessions of a Crap Artist (1992)
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Original name: Confessions d'un Barjo
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
sexy, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, offbeat
Plot:
twins, family relations, factory, suburbs, obsession, misfit, family life, couples, inventions and discoveries, suburban life, crumbling marriage, siblings relations, mentally unstable, unfulfillment, losing-it hero, couple relations, love, sex, dog, apocalypse, end of the world, horse, ufo, fight, mountain ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 178 min.
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Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Australia, Greece
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there. While the reluctant Manos is tutored in the art of revenge by old friend Stephanos, he also attempts to ...
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
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talky, witty, realistic, humorous, sincere ...
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Time:
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Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
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Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two couple of friends, one very rich the other almost homeless, decides to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother,a ...
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Place:
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49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Duration: 98 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Country: France
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Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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