A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.
- Awards
- 7 wins
Amilcar Cabral
- Self
- (archive footage)
James Stewart
- Self
- (archive footage)
- …
David Coverdale
- Self
- (uncredited)
- …
Chris Marker
- Self
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe scenes from Iceland were filmed by Haroun Tazieff in 1965, on the island Vestmannaeyjar. It shows 3 sisters, Kristbjörg Sigríður Kristmundsdóttir, born 1954, Halldóra Kristmundsdóttir, born 1957, and Áshildur Kristmundsdóttir, born 1959. They first found out about being in this film in June 2015.
- GoofsThe narration refers to the year 4001 and the 40th century. But the year 4001 will belong to the 41st century, not the 40th.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Green Fog (2017)
Featured review
Documentaries record the real; this is beyond 'real'.
When is a documentary not a documentary? SANS SOLEIL is a film comprising 'real' images, narrated with 'real' observations. The subject-matter is Japan, post-modernism, the erasion of memory, the flattening-out of history, decentring, surface, pastiche. It records life-styles, trends, habits, rites, artistic movements with the rigour of an anthropologist. It is a film about travel: throughout the world, throughout time. It is science fiction (Terry Gilliam's TWELVE MONKEYS fleshes out an anecdote here). It is a Borgesian fantasy, (the filmmaker is actually a fictional creation , Sandor Krasna). To call it a documentary, or even a film, would be like calling the Sistine Chapel a ceiling.
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- alice liddell
- Apr 11, 2000
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- Also known as
- Sun Less
- Filming locations
- 224 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California, USA(Florist is Podesta Baldocchi Grant Street shop)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $30,878
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,460
- Oct 12, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $31,111
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