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Director:
Writer:
Chris Marker (writer)
Release Date:
2 March 1983 (France)
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"He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory...
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2 wins
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Florence Delay | ... | Narrator (French version) (voice) |
| Arielle Dombasle | ... | Herself |
| Riyoko Ikeda | ... | Narrator (Japanese version) (voice) |
| Charlotte Kerr | ... | Narrator (German version) (voice) |
 | Kim Novak | ... | Herself / Madeleine Elster / Judy Burton (archive footage) |
| Alexandra Stewart | ... | Narrator (English version) (voice) |
 | James Stewart | ... | Himself / John 'Scottie' Ferguson (archive footage) |
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Also Known As:
Bez solntsa Sunless Sans soleil (complete title)
Sunless
Without Sun (International: English title)
Sans Soleil - Unsichtbare Sonne (West Germany) [de]
Sem Sol (Brazil) [pt]
Vailla aurinkoa (Finland) (TV title) [fi]
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Sunless
Without Sun (International: English title)
Sans Soleil - Unsichtbare Sonne (West Germany) [de]
Sem Sol (Brazil) [pt]
Vailla aurinkoa (Finland) (TV title) [fi]
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USA:100 min
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Black and White (archive footage) |
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1.66 : 1 more
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Rumour has it that every third-world a leader coined the same phrase the morning after independence. "Now the real problems start." Cabral never got a chance to say it: he was assassinated first. But the problems started, and went on, and are still going on. Rather unexciting problems for revolutionary romanticism: to work, to produce, to distribute, to overcome postwar exhaustion, temptations of power and privilege. Ah well...
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I've only seen this film twice, both on the same day, nearly fifteen years ago; and yet its poetic-philosophical themes, its melancholy, its images still remain with me. Viewing it was an intensely personal experience; I find myself a little startled to find that other people have seen it. I find myself plagiarising it constantly; I think of it at odd times (when I accidentally catch someone's eyes and immediately look away; whenever I visit San Francisco); it is a work of lingering and subtle beauty that percolates through my bloodstream, informing the hours and days, changing the things and ways I see...