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
Cité Soleil members in Port-au-Prince, but since then the atmosphere there has not improved; the armed roadblocks and barbed wire barricades have not been removed. After four people were killed and another six injured in a UN operation exchange of fire with criminals in Cité Soleil in late January 2007, the United States announced that it would contribute $20 million to create jobs in Cité Soleil. In early February 2007, 700 UN troops flooded Cité Soleil, resulting in a major gun battle. Although the troops make regular forcible entries into the area, a spokesperson said this one was the largest attempted so