The Man Who Sleeps (Un homme qui dort, 1974)
Bernard Queysanne's The Man who Sleeps shows the life of a 25 year-old man who detaches from a routine (and real life) to wander meaninglessly through life, without any goal, accompanied of a straightforward monologue that goes on almost non-stop, contrasting with the silence and indifference of the main character. This movie felt very very personal to me so what I'm about to write is definitely biased. It was painfully similar to the way that I experienced my depression. To each person, depression is unique. But I can say that my depression was almost ctrl c + ctrl v of this movie, it was eerily similar. Everything I could not explain when I felt at my most depressed is well depicted in this movie (and never ending monologue that was as exhausting as it was to live in a indifferent depressed state .) Un homme qui dort is the embodiment of depression to me. T he apathy, the indifference, the inability to choose as you desire nothing. The still, calm a
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