Things: A Story of the Sixties and A Man Asleep

One couple consumed by things. One man liberated by indifference. Two haunting explorations of the things we own—and the things that own us.

In Things: A Story of the Sixties, Jerome and Sylvie, a young, upwardly mobile couple lust for the good life, caught between the fantasy of “the film they would have liked to live” and the reality of life’s daily mundanities.

The nameless student in A Man Asleep attempts to purify himself entirely of material desires and ambition. He longs “to want noth...