Sans Soleil

Name: Sans Soleil
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1983-01-01
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 3
Cast: Florence Delay, Chris Marker, David Coverdale, Amílcar Cabral, Arielle Dombasle

He wrote me...

Rating

3.0 (1)

Release Date

1/1/1983

Runtime

100 mins

Genres

Documentary

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

Revenue

$30,878

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How It Feels

Read from this film's synopsis, keywords and credits, and used to work out what it sits beside.

A lyrical meditation on time, memory, and the self, woven from fragmented images of distant places and a woman's voice carrying the thoughts of an unseen traveler. It feels less like a journey through space and more like a journey through consciousness itself.

Mood

ContemplativeWistfulMelancholic

Themes

MemoryArt and creationMortality

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Documentary-likePainterly

Structure

Nonlinear

Florence Delay

Narrator (voice)

Amílcar Cabral

Self (archive footage)

Arielle Dombasle

Self

Bin Akao

Self (uncredited)

David Coverdale

Self / Deep Purple Singer (uncredited)

Chris Marker

Self (uncredited)

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

Aug 30, 2026

culture as an outsider is always gonna be difficult to grasp and as films its gonna be even harder because how can you present and talk about something you've never really experienced?
i think as a collection of images, its good enough but the narration half of the film feels like it desperately tries to say something intelectual. sometimes its decent in that but the other time its annoying as fuuuck so i do apreciate the sections of the film without narration and that rely on the images rather then the words.
(watch my filmography: boxd.it/2A45h )