San Soleil, meaning sunless in French is a post modern documentary made in 1982 directed by Chris Marker. This specific documentary is unique because it uses a female voice to narrate. This documentary was really confusing for me to understand what they are trying to get through to people, but it seems that they are trying to show industrialization in Japan. The film was all over the place with its images. There were many times when the story that the narrator was explaining did not match the footage that was being played in the film. It showed a variety of footage from different places: Iceland, Japan, Africa then back to Japan again. The cameraman seemed to travel quite a bit. It seems that the film might also being trying to say that someone who is always traveling, time and place begin to lose its meaning to them. San Soleil was interesting, but very hard to understand. It bounced around so many subjects that it was difficult to evaluate what message it was attempting to send. All in all, I really did not like it at all.
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