Synopsis: Titled after a song cycle by Mussorgsky, Sans Soleil is a 1982 nonlinear essay film by elusive documentary filmmaker Chris Marker. It's a collage of images gathered from Japan, Africa, Iceland, San Francisco, and France -- all presented without direct sound. The soundtrack consists of occasional spells of electronic music while an unseen woman's voice narrates letters written by a possibly fictional traveler in poetic verse. Beginning with the phrase "He wrote me," each segment explores some philosophical inquiry of matters as broad as modern culture, technology, consciousness, Japanese television, and even the act of filming itself. Some of the first images include children in Iceland, a ferry in Hokkido, a carnival in Guinea-Bissau, girls in Cape Verde, and a shrine to cats in Tokyo. There's also a creepy JFK robot, petrified animals left by desert drought, and teenagers dancing in a public square. The seemingly miscellaneous footage is made up of archive clips, synthesized video sequences, and some images collected by Marker's colleagues. It's randomly assembled, jumping from one continent to another in the same breath. It remains one of the director's masterpiece accomplishments.
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After relating that the filmmaker combines elements "in the fashion of a musical composition, with recurrent themes, counterpoints, and mirrorlike fugues," he says that "out of these juxtaposed memories is born a fictional memory, and in the same way that Lucy (of Peanuts fame) puts up a sign to indicate that 'The Doctor Is In,' we'd like to preface this film with a placard: 'Fiction Is Out'—somewhere." |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084628/IMDb Rating: 8.0/10 (2,109 votes)
Tomatometer: 90%
Directed by: Chris Marker
Cast:
Florence Delay .... Narrator (French version) (voice)
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Title: Sans soleil (1983)
AKA Sunless
AKA Without Sun
Source: DVD / R1, NTSC / Criterion
Size: 2.345.892.658 bytes (1/2 DVDR)
Runtime: 01:44:02
Format: MKV
Video Codec: H264 (x264 rev.1713)
Video Bitrate: 2813 kbps
Resolution: 660x480 (displayed at 1.66 AR)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 (SAR: 40:33)
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Audio Codec: AC3 (mono)
Audio Bitrate: 192 kbps
Sampling Rate: 48 KHz
Language: French
Subtitles (muxed in): SRT: English
SA: HP @ Level 4.1 |
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