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Sans Soleil
Documentary · 1983
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
The sides of Sans Soleil
- Letters from an unseen traveller read aloud
- Tokyo streets, Guinea-Bissau and Iceland
- A meditation on time and memory
Sans Soleil is good for you if…
- you like a film that raises questions about memory and leaves them open.
- you like images of everyday life in faraway places.
- you like letting a narrator's thoughts drift over the pictures.
Sans Soleil is bad for you if…
- you find grainy 1980s footage dated.
- you need a story with characters, not an essay.
About: memory · time · travel · images
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