Sunday, February 23, 2014

Sans soleil (1983)

Also Known As: Sun less, Unsichtbare Sonne
Year of first release: 1983
Director: Chris Marker
Actors: -
Country: GB
Genre: Documentary
Conditions of visioning: 22.02.2014, DVD
Synopsis: 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. 
Review: This movie is in the same DVD as La Jetée. There are plenty of cuts on different topics, that are put in parallel or at least associated. There is a philosophical thought about memory, identity and happiness, by reviewing these concepts in different cultures. But this looks as if nobody would have been really interviewed but only videos taken out of an archive and cut together to support one theoretical demonstration. For La Jetée it was ok to listen to the narration for half an hour. This time listening to it for one an hald hour is too much, maybe because the voice sounds boring.
Rating: 1 /10

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