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;
00:15:41 He asked for news of the imperial family, of the crown prince, ...
00:19:49 "The willow sees the heron's image... upside down."
00:24:17 All the way to the evening shows for adults—so called.
00:27:25 the rift that separates men from women.
00:31:00 and led one for a moment to believe in a new revolution in Europe.
00:35:05 The master died, and the dog didn't know it, and he continued to wait all his life.
00:38:05 The Korean Catholic opposition leader Kim Dae Jung —kidnapped in Tokyo in '73 by the South Korean gestapo—
00:42:06 Like everywhere else the movement had its postures and its careerists, including, and there are some, those who made a career of martyrdom.
00:45:44 I begin to wonder if those dreams are really mine, or if they are part of a totality
00:54:08 I mean the music of video games.
00:57:05 I didn't know when I was sacrificing all my hundred yen coins to him that he was going to conquer the world.
01:01:29 I have listened to the stories of former guerrilla fighters, who had fought in conditions so inhuman
01:03:55 in place of a change in the social setting he seeks simply in the revolutionary act the sublimation of his own image."
01:07:21 he the hunter, she the prey.
01:09:45 when he had saved her from death before casting her back to death.
01:12:04 as to them the existence of poverty in their present.
01:14:56 Twenty-seven years of American occupation, the re-establishment of a controversial Japanese sovereignty:
01:20:19 He wrote me: I've understood the visions.
01:25:56 that's what the oracles we take out of their long hexagonal boxes at new year may offer us:
01:30:29 And the farewell to all that one has lost, broken, used, must be ennobled by a ceremony.
01:34:40 I took the measure of the unbearable vanity of the West
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed701
Dialogue density7.0 lines / min
First line00:00:32
Final line01:34:40
Production Record
DirectorChris Marker
LanguageFrench
Revenue$30,878
IMDb votes12,534