Perec and Queysanne's 'Un homme qui dort' Reissued on DVD

The 1974 film 'Un homme qui dort', co-directed by Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne, has been reissued on DVD after being long unavailable. Based on Perec's 1967 novel of the same name (published by Denoël), the film is a unique adaptation that translates the book's literary constraints into cinematic language. It features a single actor, Jacques Spiesser, as a nameless student who withdraws from life, echoing Melville's Bartleby. The voiceover, performed by Ludmila Mikaël, guides the viewer through a hypnotic, plotless narrative that uses the second-person pronoun 'tu' and eschews traditional psychology. The film blends existentialism, absurdism, political lyricism, and everyday distortions, with editing conceived as a musical score. The reissue rescues the work from obscurity, allowing new audiences to experience this dreamlike meditation on solitude and time, which references Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'.