The Man Who Sleeps
Just to wait until there is nothing left to wait for.
Film19741h 18m
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- Director
- Bernard Queysanne
- Language
- French
- Released
- 1974-04-24
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
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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.
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