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Sans Soleil is a french film of genre Science fiction directed by Chris Marker released in USA on 26 october 1983 with Florence Delay

Sans Soleil (1983)

Sans Soleil
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Released in USA 26 october 1983
Length 1h40
Directed by
OriginFrance
Rating77% 3.8952253.8952253.8952253.8952253.895225

Sans Soleil ([sɑ̃ sɔ.lɛj], "Sunless") is a 1983 French documentary directed by Chris Marker, a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory, and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories is affected. In a 2014 Sight and Sound poll, film critics voted Sans Soleil the third best documentary film of all time. The title Sans Soleil is from the song cycle Sunless by Modest Mussorgsky.

Synopsis

Le film est construit autour du discours d'un cameraman fictif, Sandor Krasna, rédacteur de lettres lues tout au long du film par Florence Delay. Dans ses écrits, il va traiter successivement du temps, de la mémoire, de la fragilité humaine face aux séismes du Japon ou encore face à la famine, menace constante au Cap Vert ou en Guinée-Bissau. Le cinéaste voyage alors aux « deux pôles extrêmes de la survie » tel qu'il le dit lui-même. Il montrera non pas les difficultés pour ces sociétés à s'en sortir, mais plutôt leur façon de vivre et d'exister au-delà de ce qui peut leur coûter la vie. Car comme il l'annonce : « Moi, ce que je veux vous montrer, ce sont les fêtes de quartier ».

Actors

Florence Delay

(Narrator (French Version) (voice))Arielle Dombasle

(Self)Kim Novak

(Self / Madeleine Elster / Judy Burton (archive footage))James Stewart

(Self / John 'Scottie' Ferguson (archive footage))Charlotte Kerr

(Narrator (German Version) (voice))
And :
Alexandra Stewart
Chris Marker
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