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THE MAN WHO SLEEPS

Directed by Bernard Queysanne and Georges Perec

France, 1974, 1h 17min, Digital

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There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

“A hypnotic solo.”
Time Out

“An entire world is created through shifts in perspective and dislocations, and it’s achieved so seamlessly that the viewer may well become hypnotized without quite understanding why.”
–MUBI

A student (the depressingly winsome Jacques Spiesser) contemplates life, death, and the hell of it all from an existentially detached distance in this enthralling piece of aestheticized torpor from Bernard Queysanne and writer Georges Perec, adapting his own 1967 novel. Rare English-language presentation with voice-over by Shelley Duvall.

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