The Man Who Sleeps
1974 · 77 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 5,020 VOTES · DIR. Bernard Queysanne
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,028 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:06:34 Your alarm clock goes off
00:08:53 You don't wash
00:12:31 Your past, your present, and your future merge into one:
00:14:46 You only go out after nightfall like the rats, the cats, and the monsters.
00:18:03 scribbled graffiti on bathroom doors
00:20:54 You stretch out.
00:22:54 time passes, but you never know what time it is.
00:25:38 solitude
00:28:32 Disabled, ageing park-keepers pass the time of day with nannies of a different generation.
00:31:40 You sit at a table at the back of a cafe
00:35:40 and for the sadness, the misery, the poverty, the need
00:38:11 In theory, you have the right to two more attempts
00:40:39 suddenly reappear in the center
00:43:43 You never say please, hello, thank you, goodbye.
00:47:07 of light and blackness
00:49:24 columns and capitals
00:55:23 to the desire which torments you.
00:58:18 it echoed in sympathy with the chimes of each quarter-hour from the bell of Saint-Roch.
01:00:44 nothing that you seek is real.
01:03:24 You rub shoulders with them, you walk with them, you make your way amongst them:
01:05:33 the monsters in their Sunday best, the monster crowd.
01:08:02 plague-ridden
01:12:23 the changing traffic lights at the intersection between Rue des Pyramids and Rue Saint-Honore
01:14:59 You are waiting, on Place Clichy, for the rain to stop falling.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,028
Dialogue density13.4 lines / min
First line00:06:34
Final line01:14:59
Production Record
DirectorBernard Queysanne
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes5,020