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The Man Who Sleeps

1974 · 78 min

A hypnotic, second-person drift through empty Paris streets, numbing and claustrophobic, like sinking into someone else's depression.

Genres
Drama
Tagline
Just to wait until there is nothing left to wait for.
Overview
A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • identity
  • madness
  • freedom
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness8
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Bernard Queysanne
Written by
Georges Perec
Starring
Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël
Cinematography
Bernard Zitzermann
Runtime
78 min
Country
France, Tunisia
Languages
French

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