Sans Soleil

Stefan Drees

One of Marker's strongest films, an intriguing subjective montage of associative film sequences and sounds, fragments of cultural contexts, bound together by the narration of a female voice.

IKB 191

This is seriously one of the most beautiful things I ever watched in my life. idk why I procastinated and didnt watch it before. It gave me so much. Pure beauty and poetry.

CinemaHouse Productions

Director Chris Marker shows not just the cultural differences in a political or social context but showing images that quickens both heart and mind. This is not your run of the mill travelogue, Marker instead turns filmmaking into descriptive, visual essays; expressing his inner most (subjective) thoughts, linking and intercutting with imagery from his travels around the world.

Zac Weber

Sans Soleil eludes traditional categorization, but this is an astounding work of mixed-media art. Chris Marker weaves an intimate personal essay linking human experience across many places and various understandings of time. Themes of memory and the banality of life are especially prominent, and the juxtaposition of images is just remarkable. "I spent the day in front of the tv - that memory box."

icrip

My favorite film of all time!

El Biffo

See this masterpiece by Chris Marker and it will completely change what you ever thought a documentary can be. Don't even ask me what this is a documentary about. To say that it is about "memory" is too vague, it is so much more than that. Perhaps it is about how our culture allows us to process memories that people have in common. I don't really know. Just watch, it's incredibly eloquent without being too specific

Jérémy Poirier

Chris Marker is a true revisionist of the seventh art. In "Sans Soleil" he reimagines the concepts of image, memory, time and Cinema. The film takes the form of a travelogue guiding the viewer trough an alienating and ever expanding modern society with commentaries of the camera person (Marker?) read by someone else. It forms a unique cinematic object that is captivating, deeply touching and haunting. Masterpiece.

Zachary T.

Overwhelming. Often opaque, but necessarily and compellingly so; it makes you feel like a tourist among your own species. The futility of film: we're desperate to capture and preserve emotions, images, times, places, people, but all we can do is filter and repackage experiences. We toil for imitations that will never fully satisfy.