The Man Who Sleeps

1974 · 77 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 5,020 VOTES · DIR. Bernard Queysanne

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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

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00:06:34 Your alarm clock goes off
00:08:48 you add, as you do everyday, a few drops of sweetened condensed milk.
00:12:19 some thing which until then fortified you until then
00:14:32 You do not open your door.
00:17:31 Crazy dreams of solitude.
00:20:33 like a cauldron
00:22:35 Your alarm clock
00:24:56 your vegetal existence, your cancelled life.
00:27:37 you take Rue Vaugirard
00:30:40 you get restless too quickly:
00:34:30 Never again will you entrust to them the exhausting, impossible, mortal burden of representing you.
00:37:24 you are allowed to put a two there;
00:39:43 each card acquires an almost poignant density.
00:42:15 You are living in a blessed parenthesis, in a vacuum full of promise, and from which you expect nothing.
00:45:07 You sit down, you stretch out, you remain standing
00:48:04 You are safe.
00:53:39 But rats don't spend hours trying to get to sleep.
00:56:15 This is the hour when, your eyes wide open in the darkness
00:59:27 A being without memory, without alarm.
01:01:47 their furtive departures
01:03:58 those who talk to themselves
01:06:07 sad clowns in sad music-halls, sad queues outside the sad cinemas
01:08:42 waiting for the fire without flames to consume the stairs
01:12:45 drifting or sleep

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,028
Dialogue density13.4 lines / min
First line00:06:34
Final line01:12:45

Production Record

DirectorBernard Queysanne
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes5,020