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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302765588
Format: Color, Dubbed, Letterboxed, NTSC
ISBN: 6302765587
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Release Date: January 01, 1998
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 35764
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
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Amazon.com:
On the surface, this remarkable 1982 filmed essay by the legendary Chris Marker--the French filmmaking pioneer whose extraordinary works about the properties of memory (including the 1962 La Jetée, remade by Terry Gilliam as 12 Monkeys) comprise a chapter of French New Wave history--appears to be a kind of travelogue. Using narration, documentary footage, photographs, and various sorts of mental meanderings, Marker constructs a cinematic parallel to the inherent adventures in journeying through different parts of the world. With great, self-effacing wit, Marker invokes that sense of broadened wisdom and vision that accompanies travel, as well as the delicate problem of trying to communicate the scale of that wisdom and vision to others. The delightful movie takes us to many fascinating sights in Tokyo, but what really develops is a dialogue with the audience about the nature of a filmmaker's pact with them, as well as the insecurity of trying to live up to that promise. A wonderful, clear-eyed experience, one that makes you wonder why Marker continues to be tagged with the obfuscating tag of 'experimentalist.' --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A Gem of Inventive Filmmaking
I saw Sans Soleil in an art film class I took a year or so ago. I had no idea what to expect, and I was totally enthralled. I scoured the internet for a copy of the film on DVD, and finally did find a bootleg copy somewhere. It remains my favorite film experience ever, and each time I watch it I make new connections and realize another idea the film is suggesting. Before I proceed, let me note that the film is neither fiction nor traditional documentary, but is an "essay film," meaning a voiceover ... Read More
Rating: - A cine-voyager's encyclopaedia, one to quicken the heart.
The following comment is merely the equivalent of those travel brochures that encourge you to visit foreign places. To tell you what I thought and felt about 'Sans Soleil' would be as meaningless as somebody returning from a holiday to Majorca and eulogising their suntan. 'Sans Soleil' is a journey everyone must undertake for themselves. One (mental) health warning, though: the journey is endless - once taken, you can never go 'home' again.
Because 'Sans Soleil' IS a journey. It is a ... Read More
Rating:  - An interesting video
This is a very interesting video. I live in Japan and the traveller notices and is fascinated with everything I take for granted, for example, the January light.
Rating: - Sharing Experience
"Sans Soleil" is more than a movie. it is a shared experience. The ideas and images staid with me and were in my mind for several days. Remembering it is like thinking of a beautiful moment of strange and deep intimacy.
Rating: - one of the greatest films ever made
A fabulous, rangy ficto-documentary by Chris Marker. It doesn't, as stated above, have subtitles: this is the english version. The sound track consists of music and a voiceover read in this version by Alexandra Stewart. Iceland, Japan, Guinea-Bissau, the Ile de Paris, Hitchcock's Vertigo and as always, cats by the galore. Cinema by somebody who continually invents the cinematic everytime out.
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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302765588
Format: Color, Dubbed, Letterboxed, NTSC
ISBN: 6302765587
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Release Date: January 01, 1998
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 35764
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1962