Sans Soleil
1983 · 100 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 12,534 VOTES · DIR. Chris Marker
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 701 lines
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00:00:32 He said that for him it was the image of happiness
00:04:26 He wrote me: I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering
00:09:19 Real power was in the hands of a family of hereditary regents;
00:15:45 of the oldest mobster in Tokyo who appears regularly on television to teach goodness to children.
00:20:05 The commercial becomes a kind of haiku to the eye
00:24:23 Censorship is not the mutilation of the show, it is the show.
00:27:31 violent slaughter, or a discreet melancholy —resembling Sei Shonagon's—
00:31:11 This morning I was on the dock at Pidjiguity
00:35:18 so that the faithful soul of Hachiko will never go hungry.
00:38:16 Some very young militants are trying to gather signatures in his support.
00:42:49 The youth who get together every weekend at Shinjuku obviously know that they are not on a launching pad toward real life;
00:46:07 All the galleries lead to stations;
00:54:51 I later met up with them again all over the world, but one detail was different.
00:58:07 He was pleased that the same chrysanthemums appeared in funerals for men and for animals.
01:01:54 Amilcar Cabral was the only one to lead a victorious guerrilla war
01:04:26 liquidated in their turn by a central power to whose stability everyone paid homage until the military coup.
01:07:50 and not discover immediately that this vertigo of space in reality stands for the vertigo of time.
01:10:27 I saw it immediately as a setting for science fiction: the landscape of another planet.
01:12:38 he perceived the presence of that thing he didn't understand which had something to do with unhappiness and memory
01:16:44 People have their pictures taken in front of the ditch.
01:22:08 A lighthouse in the Sahel looks like a collage until you see the ocean at the edge of the sand and salt.
01:26:54 the most interesting unquestionably being the acquisition at the temple of Tenjin of the uso bird
01:31:52 why I held it at arms length, at zooms length, until its last twenty-fourth of a second.
01:35:51 He writes that he can now summon up the look on the face of the market lady of Praia that had lasted only the length of a film frame.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed701
Dialogue density7.0 lines / min
First line00:00:32
Final line01:35:51
Production Record
DirectorChris Marker
LanguageFrench
Revenue$30,878
IMDb votes12,534