Friday 27 August 2010

A Man Asleep (1974) by Bernard Queysanne - (7/10)

A wonderful (or more correctly accurate) portrait of depression that shows it just the way it is. It shows a french student who one day just decided to serve all contact with society. The actor never speaks but you hear what he is thinking, his endless ramblings. How he is trying to make sense of the world. How loneliness both seems like the only solution and is slowly killing him at the same time. How boredom grows around. For those who never experienced this, this as close as you will get inside the mind of someone suffering depression. Those who have will surely be capable of relating. As a matter of fact, this movie will seem nearly autobiographical to them.

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