Sans Soleil Sans Soleil Sans Soleil (, "Sunless") is a 1983 French documentary directed by Chris Marker, a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory, and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories is affected. In a 2014 "Sight and Sound" poll, film critics voted "Sans Soleil" the third best documentary film of all time. The title "Sans Soleil" is from the song cycle "Sunless" by Modest Mussorgsky. Expanding the documentary genre, this experimental essay-film is a composition of thoughts, images and scenes, mainly from Japan and
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide démodé comme le petit roman de Sagan" (i.e., "a little film which is old-fashioned in the same way the little novel by Sagan is"). "Time Out" was very critical, calling it "fatuous" and saying "Porel gives one of the most boring, suburban, asexual performances imaginable". DVD Talk called it "dated and dull". It is based on a 1969 book by Françoise Sagan. BSCNews calls it "a superb novel", praising Sagan's "simple and poetic" style. Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide, internationally released as A Few Hours of Sunlight and "A Little Sun