CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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The Man Who Sleeps posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

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MOVIE1974 1h 17m FRA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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CURATING YOUR NEXT FRAME

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

A hypnotic solo by its mute hero, a young man who decides to withdraw from the world and whose mental journal of his experience is confided to us by a girl’s voice off-screen, Un homme qui dort is an astonishing tour de force.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

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