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Documentaries like Sans Soleil

Not everyone loves Sans Soleil for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love Sans Soleil

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  1. You like a film that raises questions about memory and leaves them open.

  2. You like images of everyday life in faraway places.

  3. You like letting a narrator's thoughts drift over the pictures.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

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  • Tokyo-Ga1985

    • letting a narrator's thoughts drift over the pictures

    Good for you if you like long, quiet shots of a city going about its day.

  • The Image Book2018

    • a film that raises questions about memory and leaves them open
    • images of everyday life in faraway places

    Good for you if you like images cut, saturated and set against each other.

  • Powaqqatsi1988

    • images of everyday life in faraway places

    Good for you if you like faces and crowds filmed in slow motion.

  • Lost in Translation2003

    • letting a narrator's thoughts drift over the pictures

    Good for you if you like a quiet film that drifts like a night without sleep.

  • The Seventh Seal1957

    • a film that raises questions about memory and leaves them open
    • images of everyday life in faraway places

    Good for you if you like questions about God that nobody answers.

  • Man with a Movie Camera1929

    • images of everyday life in faraway places

    Good for you if you like seeing camera tricks invented before your grandparents were born.

  • Nostalgia for the Light2010

    • letting a narrator's thoughts drift over the pictures

    Good for you if you like a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think.

  • Lessons of Darkness1992

    • images of everyday life in faraway places

    Good for you if you like burning oil fields filmed like an alien world.

  • A1998

    • a film that raises questions about memory and leaves them open
    • letting a narrator's thoughts drift over the pictures

    Good for you if you like a film that refuses to tell you what to think of the people it films.

  • À propos de Nice1930

    • images of everyday life in faraway places

    Good for you if you like Jean Vigo's quick, mocking montage.

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