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Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikael

In this French tour-de-force a young student (Jacques Speisser) decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is... read more read more... coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him. His inner musings as he wanders the luminous streets of Paris are narrated in the form of an unwritten diary by Ludmila Mikael. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 22 min.

Directed by: Bernard Queysanne

Release Date: January 1, 1974

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  • columbiatch
    March 26, 2009
    columbiatch
    This was unbelievably good. The film follows a young university student who has withdrawn from society and live in isolation in his cramped room in Paris. This thing is so perfectly shot and symmetrically structured. It's like stylistically the best parts of Marienbad and those... read more nouveau roman films wedded to the alienation and existentialist narratives like Woman in the Dunes and I Stand Alone. The editing is unlike anything I've ever seen, different from any of Resnais or Robbe-Grillet films. The sense of time and linearity is completely abolished through its use of repetition. There is no dialogue, only a constant voiceover addressed in the 2nd person. My only quibble is that I watched it with the French narration, and like any voiceover heavy film it takes focus away from the images.

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