The Man Who Sleeps
- IMDb link: 0192718
- IMDb rating: 7.8 (5,725 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Bernard Queysanne
- Cast: 2 critic, Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikael and others
- Release date: 24 Apr 1974
- Release year: 1974
- Runtime: 77 minutes
- Country: France, Tunisia
- Keywords: boredom, surrealism, nihilism, existentialism, apartment, paris france, incommunicability, french, loneliness, urban decay
Plot
Storyline
A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.
A young Parisian student who, without any dramatic event triggering the change, gradually withdraws from the world around him. He stops attending university, distances himself from friends, and drifts through the streets of Paris in a state of emotional detachment and indifference. Narrated in the second person, the film adopts an introspective and minimalist style, closely observing the protagonist's daily routines as he embraces passivity and isolation. As he attempts to erase desire, ambition, and connection, the city becomes both a backdrop and a mirror to his inner emptiness. Through spare imagery and meditative voiceover, the film explores alienation, existential withdrawal, and the fragile boundary between freedom and solitude.
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