The Man Who Sleeps

Un homme qui dort

Tunisia, France

1974

93 Min

Black and White

1.33:1

French

Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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CAST Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël

ED Andrée Davanture, Agnès Molinard

MUSIC Philippe Drogos, Eugénie Kuffler

A hypnotic solo by its mute hero, a young man who decides to withdraw from the world and whose mental journal of his experience is confided to us by a girl’s voice off-screen, Un homme qui dort is an astonishing tour de force. What distinguishes it from all those ventures in spiritual navel-gazing is that his decision to not-be is purely practical, and the parabola he traces from boredom to terror – as he gradually detaches himself to float free within an indefinable menace – is brilliantly conveyed by the other leading character in the film: the city of Paris. The influence of Franju is unmistakable, and wholly beneficial. —DVDbeaver.com

Director

Bernard Queysanne

Bernard Queysanne is a French film director, born June 9, 1944 in Rabat, Morocco. He has worked in film and television, both in fiction and documentary.

He was assistant director, assistant editor, photographer and production manager on many films by Georges Franju, Philippe Labro, Robert Enrico and Serge Korber.