Sans Soleil is a film directed by Chris Marker. This film is very different from many other documentaries because the narrator is a woman and she is speaking for the male director. There seems to be an odd relationship between the woman and the cameraman, as if the woman is reading the letters the camera man sent to her. She begins every new thougt with, "He wrote me..." It is conisdered a post modern documentary. The film also borrows other peoples music. Three key themes to look for in this film are time, place and memory.
Sans Soleil in French means without sun. I feel that the director named this documentary accordingly because he looks into things that are often not given the light and recognition that many other topics are. It may also translate to the random images of horror movies throughout the film. I also feel like much of the movie was a bluish or gray tint, suggesting depression or melancholy. The narrator's voice also contributed to this feeling. She spoke slowly and almost coldly, like she was disconnected from the film, off in her own world. I didn't like or understand why much of the narration did not go along with the images on the screen. I'm sure the director had alterior meanings or motives behind the mismatching images and speech, but I am not sure of those. Overall, this was a very interesting and thought provoking film.
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