- 'Malaise' follows an occult direction which predicts the later shamanic inclinations of its narrator, Peter Whitehead.
The text is from a translation of Nathalie Sarraute's anti-novel 'Portrait d'un Inconnu'.
The film shares no narrative elements with the novel, but all the 'Five Films' (Punulse, Malaise, Catharsis, Point of Noon, Black Ice) have kinship with Sarraute's idea of tropisms.