Sans Soleil Comments

  • Braulio 2023-01-14 08:52:32

    Unexplainable, probably the subtitle translation is to blame. There are a lot of inspirations for taking pictures of TV images. In particular, the violence and pornographic images on TV are edited together with subway sleepers, which is like the stream of consciousness of modern people who have been brainwashed by...

  • Carmelo 2023-01-12 22:50:34

    20201122@wenyuanlou#French DocumentaryClassic Exhibition# Rewatching Jiaxing, an incomparably fascinating revisiting journey, a long and distant letter from an unknown parallel time and space, an incredible and magical dream-like documentary, language The style is like poetry, especially the golden lines about memory are beautiful and speculative. Of course, the focus is indeed on Japan, but it is not purely a documentary about Japan. Cultural phenomenon as an entry point, re-examines many commo

  • Paris 2022-12-30 18:34:53

    An essay by Chris Marker on space-time, memory, rituals, dreams, the subconscious, and comparative cultures. Tokyo in January suddenly rang out between the four walls, full of age-like synthesizer electronic sounds and moving images. Japan: Other observation of alienation or essence, curiosity or childlike obsession, splendid and rotten vs barren land. The first half of the book bag is a little painful, the letter writer, the letter reader, the dubbing person...

  • Claud 2022-12-27 18:16:49

    The processing of images, the superposition of analog synthesizer music and ambient sounds, all seem to imitate the way memory wanders. Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Mussorgsky. "I'm writing you all this from another world, a world of appearances." First person and...

  • Roselyn 2022-12-15 11:38:11

    Much better than Alain...

  • Dereck 2022-12-12 15:24:35

    [Screening at the French Cultural Center] Prose and poetry images collaged using narration and montage techniques. Get a glimpse of Japanese society in the 1980s (as well as Iceland, Africa, Hong Kong and the locations of Hitchcock's Vertigo). The two uses of TV images are very innovative, one is a combination with narration, and the other is an alternate editing of dozing tram passengers and horror images. This is the magic of montage. Synthesizer-processed images are...

  • Axel 2022-12-07 05:11:50

    I can't watch it, I can't watch...

  • Adelbert 2022-11-16 17:11:17

    This narrative method between three and four stars is still very powerful (in memory, almost no one could survive such a chaotic narrative before the 1980s, and there was no audience) Japan was really developed in the 1980s (so stop watching Eskimos as anthropologists). I have a way to make a film, so it looks stupid) I don’t give a high score mainly because I don’t understand why Africa and finally Iceland must be added, and I don’t think it’s inexplicable that I didn’t understand...

  • Leonard 2022-11-03 22:48:55

    Our teacher said that Chris Marker is a rich French man who likes to make movies...

  • August 2022-09-25 15:15:02

    I read the English version. Memories, fragments, images, and sounds are recorded on film and become history, and where is our own memory? I felt endless fear and also deeply touched the sadness of memory fading into history. 8.0...

Extended Reading

Sans Soleil quotes

  • Narrator: As for the students, some massacred each other in the mountains in the name of revolutionary purity, while others had studied capitalism so thoroughly to fight it that they now provide it with its best executives.

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland in 1965. He said that for him that it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images. But, it never worked. He wrote me, "One day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black leader. If they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black."

Sans Soleil

Director: Chris Marker

Language: French,Japanese,English,Cantonese,Japanese Sign Language Release date: March 2, 1983