Un Homme Qui Dort (1974)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 77 minuten
Alternative title: The Man Who Sleeps
Country:
France / Tunisia
Directed by: Bernard Queysanne
Stars: Jacques Spiesser and Ludmila Mikaël
IMDb score:
7,9 (5.512)
Releasedate: 24 April 1974
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Un Homme Qui Dort plot
"Just to wait until there is nothing left to wait for."
A taciturn young student (Jacques Spiesser) decides to withdraw completely from society in order to erase his existence and thus gain complete freedom. He locks himself in his room, forgets the time and does no more than is absolutely necessary to stay alive. His inner reflections during the nightly walks and during the recurring long stay in his narrow bed in his student room come to the viewer like an unwritten diary, read by Ludmila Mikaël.
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leatherhead
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- 3556 messages
- 1813 votes
Strongly disagree with my upstairs neighbor. Genius film, the kind that manages to stir emotions in me. Wouldn't be surprised if Moodysson got his inspiration for Container from here, it also shares striking similarities with Seul Contre Tous. In any case, Un Homme Qui Dort is hardly inferior to the titles mentioned.
Beautiful, high-contrast atmospheric images, and a vague, at times swelling soundtrack that lends the flow of images an extra powerful undertone. Gradually a dire atmosphere emerges. And then probably the endless voice-over, which starts off fairly down-to-earth, but slides further and further into abstraction, the associative. At a given moment, only diffuse trains of thought are reviewed. No justified expressions or correct sentences, but simply feelings.
But, in my opinion, it is especially nice that the images are perfectly in line with this. I'm not really a 'poetry person' per se. If I were to read such - incoherent - lines of thought/words in a book, I would probably not find it a bad idea. However, in combination with the flow of images, it intrigues me immensely. The visual forms the perfect foundation for the voice-over, or vice versa.
My kind of film, but it's strange that I only recently discovered it. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a DVD anywhere. For now 4.5*. Definitely not everyone's proverbial cup of tea, but I found it downright fascinating.
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Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8442 votes
Isolation, indifference, inaccessibility, a depressing choice.
The fantastic flow of words, poetic and realistic (a task to follow perfectly even for French speakers) and the images go hand in hand, but it is the latter that you should not let go of.
Film makes you curious at first, but soon you realize that there will be no story from A to Z and you get drawn into the sad atmosphere of the uselessness of the individual, created by rapidly successive white-black images of monuments, streets and corners of Paris and also of people. The latter in particular is strongly featured towards the end and impresses with several expressive scenes.
Special and strong film work, where you either have to take it or leave it.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
A fascinating observational film - sort of, but actually - in which a young man literally wanders around Paris. He lives a kind of nihilistic existence of loneliness and seclusion. Moreover, his existential being is questioned.
After 50 minutes I had seen it, but the clever monologues of the voice-over added absolute value to the whole, making it still interesting despite the repetitive nature.
The trip through Paris was also nice, visiting well-known and lesser-known places. It was also interesting to watch what happened next to the young man in the streets and corners. This is mainly due to the excellent camera work.
Perhaps not an average film and not for everyone, but I did like this artistic documentary film.
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