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Sans Soleil

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Sans Soleil	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Sans Soleil is a 1983 film by Chris Marker.It's a documentary—well, sort of. It's really more of an experimental film. The conceit of the film has the narrator (Florence Delay in the French version, Alexandra Stewart in the English version) reading letters written to her by one "Sandor Krasna", a fictional cameraman. The letters are supposedly the narrator describing his travels and philosophizing about the things he sees.The bulk of the film is set in Japan, and has "Krasna", through his fake letters, opining about the various unusual things he filmed in that country. Commuters sleeping on a bus. Japanese horror films on TV. Japanese porn on TV. An animatronic John F. Kennedy statue in a department store, an anti-communist political rally, religious services, street festivals, shopkeepers on Okinawa, drunken hoboes...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Another chunk of the film concerns the narrator's travels in Guinea-Bissau, a country in West Africa that at that time had only recently gained its independence. The under-developed Guinea-Bissau is contrasted with highly technological Japan, with attention paid to the Marxist guerillas who fought against their Portuguese occupiers.The documentary randomly skips around from subject to subject as the narrator waxes philosophic about time and memory. Other scenes include shots of Iceland, Paris, and San Francisco, where the camera journeys to various shooting locations for the film Vertigo.
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Sans Soleil / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Sans Soleil / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: One of the fake letters involves "Krasna" telling about an idea for a sci-fi story involving a man time-warping back to the present day from 2000 years in the future. The narration then states the title of the story will be Sunless.
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Sans Soleil / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Sans Soleil / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Discussed Trope, as the narration talks about how ridiculous it is to tell people not to look at the camera, followed by a montage of people looking at the camera.
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Sans Soleil / int_2169c95c	type	Taxidermy Is Creepy
Sans Soleil / int_2169c95c	comment	Taxidermy Is Creepy: The sex museum, with its various statues of penises (one is actually shooting water!) is odd enough. But then the camera reveals the exhibit that consists of various animals that have been stuffed and mounted in sex positions.
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Sans Soleil / int_3b0bd0ab	type	Thirsty Desert
Sans Soleil / int_3b0bd0ab	comment	Thirsty Desert: A scene shows the Sahel region of Africa, generally classed as the transition between the Sahara Desert and the savanna, but here looking like a straight-up desert, with the bodies of animals in dried-out watering holes.
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Sans Soleil / int_3f267047	type	Voiceover Letter
Sans Soleil / int_3f267047	comment	Voiceover Letter: Most of the narration, as the conceit is the narrator reading the letters that the man wrote to her.
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Sans Soleil / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
Sans Soleil / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: Seen in stock footage of Guinea-Bissau rebels in actual combat. Seen again in a shot where the camera captures a P.O.V. Cam shot recreating Scottie chasing after Madeline in Vertigo.
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Sans Soleil / int_63f13aec	type	It Is Pronounced
Sans Soleil / int_63f13aec	comment	It Is Pronounced Tro Pay: When discussing the character of Madeline in Vertigo the narrator insists on calling her "Made-LINE" with a long I.
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Sans Soleil / int_7b7f1657	type	Canine Companion
Sans Soleil / int_7b7f1657	comment	Canine Companion: One scene shows the famous statue of Hachiko the dog at a Japanese train station, while the narration tells the story of how Hachiko came to the station every day to wait for his master to come home from work, including nine years after his master died of a brain hemorrhage.
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Sans Soleil / int_a412cd2b	type	Lens Flare
Sans Soleil / int_a412cd2b	comment	Lens Flare: Seen as the film captures footage of a street parade during a Japanese festival, as elaborately clad dancers make their way down a street at night. The lens flares from the lights add to the unreality of the scene.
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Sans Soleil / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
Sans Soleil / int_ad7a381d	comment	Seen again in a shot where the camera captures a P.O.V. Cam shot recreating Scottie chasing after Madeline in Vertigo.
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Sans Soleil / int_b537784e	type	Fauxlosophic Narration
Sans Soleil / int_b537784e	comment	Fauxlosophic Narration: At times the letters of Krasna make pointed observations, like when a shot of women in a Guinea-Bissau marketplace is accompanied by the narrator saying "All women have a built-in grain of indestructibility. And men's task has always been to make them realize it as late as possible.". At other times, however, the narrator simply rambles.
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Sans Soleil / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Sans Soleil / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out A clip of Marlon Brando talking about "the horror" in Apocalypse Now is used to introduce a montage of clips from cheesy Japanese horror films. An extended sequence is dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. The camera visits various shooting locations, including where Kim Novak jumped into the bay and the mission where the climax was set, contrasting stills from the movie with live footage from the same location. (By that time the old boarding house that James Stewart visits had been torn down and replaced by a large concrete building.) A shot of Kim Novak pointing at the rings of a tree in Vertigo leads the narrator to mention another movie where the rings of a tree were used to symbolize the passage of time. The film mentioned is actually Chris Marker's famous short La Jetée.
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Sans Soleil / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Sans Soleil / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: One scene shows, for no obvious reason, poachers killing a giraffe. A poacher shoots the giraffe right through the upper trunk. Enormous jets of blood spurt out of both of the giraffe's sides. The giraffe staggers around for a little bit, then collapses. It's still twitching when a poacher comes up and finishes it off with a shot to the head. Then vultures swoop down and eat out the giraffe's eye. Another scene shows an African person who has suffered burns, or some sort of other horrific damage, to their foot and lower leg. The camera shows how the skin around the foot and leg is gone, revealing muscle and connective tissue underneath. Oh, and there are maggots crawling around the exposed flesh.
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Sans Soleil / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Sans Soleil / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: A clip of a Guinea-Bissau soldier embracing a politician during the war of independence is matched with a near-identical clip of a soldier and a politician embracing during a promotion ceremony in 1980. That latter clip is undercut by the narration observing that the politician shown was shortly thereafter overthrown and exiled by the officer he was embracing.
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Sans Soleil / int_f09e6c1c	type	Ironic Juxtaposition
Sans Soleil / int_f09e6c1c	comment	Ironic Juxtaposition Commuters dozing in their seats on a Japanese train are contrasted with similarly framed shots from Japanese horror films. The narrator claims to have picked up a radio broadcast from Hong Kong while on Sal Island in Cape Verde. The film then contrasts busy Hong Kong street scenes with the windswept emptiness of Sal Island beaches.
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Sans Soleil / int_f2b365c1	type	Libation for the Dead
Sans Soleil / int_f2b365c1	comment	Libation for the Dead: One scene shows Japanese people pouring bottles of sake over the tombs of deceased relations on the Day of the Dead.
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Sans Soleil / int_f6c3d469	type	Fanservice Extra
Sans Soleil / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: The naked ladies in what appears to be a Japanese nude beauty pageant, complete with a censor bar running across the screen as they stand on stage, covering up their private areas. The narrator speculates that the titillation of the censorship bar is the real point.
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