FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Un Homme Qui Dort (engl. subt.)


A nice job, video store in the film art bar Fitzcarraldo! A customer asked me about Un Homme Qui Dort. A film that we don't have yet. Finally I found it on youtube in good quality. - Here comes a man with a very ordinary face. He's neither unusually handsome nor particularly ugly. You see him, you forget him. He's not particularly memorable. It's like his life when he pours himself a cup of Nescafe every day. With a drop of condensed milk. He usually wears T-shirts and has a corduroy jacket on his bedroom door. His hair is a little tousled. He stays at home, doesn't want to see anyone, doesn't want to talk or think. It's almost like the whole world is slipping away from him... existential depression, alienation, nihilism. A young student from Paris, isolated, lonely. This is the theme of Bernard Queysanne's 1974 drama, based on the novel by Georges Perec. It seems as if a diary has been transferred to the screen here. As slow and sluggish as this student's thoughts may be. Cold and distant, the work, like the world of the protagonist, forces Queysanne's perspective on us. His name is Jacques Spiesser. A beautiful, inconspicuous man. We accompany him as he strolls aimlessly through the streets of Paris. Paris in exquisite black and white images - the beauty of the film corresponds to that of the protagonist. Spiesser slowly escapes his "normal" life and he estranges from the world, falls into a hole of deep isolation. Pretentious? But no, it is a radical attempt to adapt the film's aesthetics to its subject. A depressing challenge and cinematic voyage of discovery! Un Homme Qui was considered one of the best films of all time. I would call it a forgotten masterpiece! (Unfortunately the DVD is currently out of print. There is a nice release, which also runs with German and English sound. Will be purchased immediately, when available again!