Un homme qui dort 1974 Full movie English & Español subs. Georges Perec – L’homme qui dort

Nella Parigi del 1973, superato l’ultimo esame, uno studente si chiude in una sorta di ibernazione, limitando la propria esistenza a funzioni vegetali o neutrali, senza parlare né avere altri rapporti con alcuno. Vuol raggiungere l’indifferenza, ma sprofonda nell’angoscia finché, dolorosamente, riallaccia la catena della vita con gli altri. Aperto da una frase di Kafka (“Non è necessario che tu esca dalla tua casa…”), ispirato a un testo di Georges Perec e imparentato da lontano con Sartre (La nausea). Il testo di Perec ha la forma di un discorso che una voce femminile rivolge al “dormiente” come un’eco del suo monologo interiore. Le immagini non illustrano il testo: c’è una costante sfasatura tra le une (fotografate dal regista) e l’altro. Ai limiti della schizofrenia, è una cronaca onirica di un impossibile itinerario verso il non-essere. Un esercizio di stile? Ma anche una scommessa vinta. Premio Jean Vigo 1974. Esposto alla Biennale Cinema di Venezia 1975.AUTORE LETTERARIO: Georges Perec

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Perec’s Un Homme Qui Dort

The Auteurs’ Glenn Kenny reports on Un Homme Qui Dort, Perec and Queysanne’s 1974 film of Perec’s book of the same name (thanks Robin):

In the early ’70s Perec and his friend Bernard Queysanne, a filmmaker whose experience had heretofore been as an assistant director, teamed up to make a film of the book Un Homme Qui Dort. While much of the film’s narration — which comprises the entirety of the film’s verbal content; there is no dialogue — is taken directly from the novel, Perec jettisoned the book’s linear structure in favor of, Bellos explains, “a mathematical construction. After the prologue (part 0, so to speak) there are six sections. The six sections are interchangeable in the sense that the same objects, places, and movements are shown in each, but they are all filmed from different angles and edited into different order, in line with the permutations of the sestina. The text and the music are similarly organized in six-part permutations, and then edited and mixed so that the words are out of phase with the image except at apparently random moments, the last of which — the closing sequence — is not random at all but endowed with an overwhelming sense of necessity.” (More…)

Posted by Mark Thwaite on Friday 07 November 2008 – Comments (3)
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Readers Comments

Robin Durie Thursday 04 December 2008

Of the novel Un homme qui dort, Kenny notes: “Perec’s 1967 novel Un homme qui dort is, by Perecian standards, a relatively straightforward work—its most noteworthy stylistic feature is its unfailingly beautiful use of the second person singular.” Of course, this overlooks the attempt Perec has made to re-write Bartleby (!); & the borrowing of phrases from 6 authors to provide the text for the novel (which in turn provides the impetus for the ‘sestina’ structure of the movie…). Does anyone out there in RSBland know of any suitably clenching scholarly work devoted to the sourcing of this novel?
jelle deturck Sunday 29 March 2009

Wonderful experiment! At the best to read in the early morning; you feel dazed and captured by it all day..
The almost alienating depersonalisation of the character reverberates (in my opinion) into something hopeful – and at the end of the text into something meaningful. (Although I’m not so sure if Perec had that in mind..).
Something to reread every couple of months..!
jelle deturck Thursday 02 July 2009

Le film -même- me fait penser – pas vraiment à Antonioni (par exemple: ‘Au delà des nuages’..); mais plutôt concret: disons Bernard Blier (‘Mon oncle d’Amérique’ où ‘Trop belle pour toi’). Chez tous les cinéastes ci-dessus, il y al quelque chose commun; en tout cas c’est-ce que moi j’en pense – c’est à dire: Le Manque (en allemand peut être: Sehnsucht).
La Romantique postmoderne (cf. Fastbinder..)..