L' HOMME QUI MARCHE
WALKING MAN, THE
French director Aurélia Georges's offbeat character study L'Homme qui marche commences with the intersection of two minds and two lives: that of a photographer, and that of a gaunt fellow with a perpetually darkened mood named Viktor Atemian. The men meet in mid-Seventies Paris, forge an enduring friendship and play Dadaist games together; in time, Viktor impulsively picks up a pen and paper and begins to write, continually, irrepressibly. Viktor's success first peaks, thanks in no small part to the acclaim of his premier short story, but in time, his popularity and his money both run out - he is forced to sell his luxury Parisian apartment and eventually winds up on the street. Georges's film follows Atemian as he slides from the crests of fame to the depths of obscurity, and into the emotional and spiritual no man's land that accompanies such a state. L'Homme qui marche is a film about the passing of time, renunciation, and plunging into the void. (Nathan Southern)
- Mireille Perrier - Helen
- Florence Loiret-Caille - Christelle
- César Sarachu - Viktor Atemian
- John Arnold
- Judith Henry
- Aurélia Georges
- Elodie Monlibert
- Hélène Louvart
- Laurent Gabiot
- Jean-Christophe Hym
- Arnaud Sallé
- Eric Barboza
- Caroline Tavernier
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