The Man Who Sleeps
Un homme qui dort
1974 · 1h 18m · Drama · France, Tunisia
Just to wait until there is nothing left to wait for.
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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anomiedepressionexistentialismnihilismsurrealism
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