Sans Soleil
- Florence Delay: narrator German: Charlotte Kerr
- English: Alexandra Stewart
- Japanese: Riyoko Ikeda
- Arielle Dombasle: You yourself
- Kim Novak: You yourself / Madeleine Elster / Judy Burton
- James Stewart: He / John, Scottie ' Ferguson
Sans Soleil - Invisible Sun (French for without sun ) is a French essay film from 1983 by Chris Marker. The title refers to the eponymous song cycle by Modest Mussorgsky. Sans Soleil is a meditation on the nature of human memory.
Content
The film is a rich mixture of thoughts, photos and scenes mainly from Japan and Guinea- Bissau. Other scenes were filmed in Paris and San Francisco. A narrator reads fictional letters of the invented cameraman Sandor Krasna, the fact also describes his experiences while traveling. The change of topics and locations is free flowing. The movie talks about the beauty of nature and showed them at the same time also highlights threats to civilization.
Reception
Jochen Brunow described the film in Metzler Lexikon film as "a film of great density and complexity, no (s) classic ( n ) essay film. [ ... ] Travel descriptions, expressed in letter form thoughts, poems, anecdotes, images and thematic reflections on the cinema Change artfully from one another. Sans soleil relies on the analytical power of the images, on the redemption of physical reality. The film manages this by having in bringing the great flood of images, the numerical multiplication of the existing images and the degradation of their representational function by the electronic processing in the computer, in the body of the film itself. "
Awards
Sans Soleil received a " Special Mention " at the OCIC Award at the Berlinale 1983. The British Film Institute gave Chris Marker in the same year, the Sutherland Trophy.