Sans Soleil
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| Directed by | Chris Marker |
| Written by | Chris Marker |
| Narrated by | Florence Delay (French version) Riyoko Ikeda (Japanese version) Charlotte Kerr (German version) Alexandra Stewart (English version) |
| Music by | Michel Krasna |
| Cinematography | Chris Marker |
| Editing by | Chris Marker |
| Release date(s) | 1983 |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
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Sans Soleil (Sunless in English) is a 1983 film by French director Chris Marker. The title is taken from the song cycle Sunless by Modest Mussorgsky.
Stretching the genre of documentary, this experimental film is a rich composition of thoughts, images and scenes, mainly from Japan and Guinea-Bissau, "two extreme poles of survival". Some other scenes were filmed in Iceland, Paris, and San Francisco. A female narrator reads from letters supposedly sent to her by the (fictitious) cameraman Sandor Krasna. Much of the text revolves around the notion of memory. The sequence in San Francisco heavily references Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
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