The Sleeping Man

This film (drama)Also known asUn homme qui dort，is aFrance, TunisiaProducerwomen sex，At1974Released in year 。The dialogue language isFrench，Current Douban rating8.2(For reference only)。

There are very few films adapted from Perec's works, and in 1974, French young director Bernard Queysanne's debut film adapted from Perec's novel "The Sleeping Man" is arguably one of the most famous. The film won the Jean Vigo Award that year. This essayistic black-and-white movie tells the story of an ordinary young student who plans to isolate himself from the noisy city to experience a highly simplified life. As time passes, his life becomes increasingly monotonous, and his actions more mechanical; however, his inner self becomes increasingly capable of observing the world more clearly. He constantly reflects and meditates, as if walking through the streets of Paris, communicating with various crowds, while also contemplating his previous state of life... The style of the entire film resembles the works of Duras from the seventies, with no dialogue throughout; there are only the characters' actions, imagined scenes, impossibly long takes, and a significant amount of voiceover—narrated by a female voice in French reading the male protagonist's daily journal. This is undoubtedly a personal style experimental film, and other aspects of the film, such as cinematography and editing, also have many noteworthy details to explore.