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Chris Marker

France · b. July 29, 1921 – d. July 29, 2012

Chris Marker (French: [maʁkɛʁ]; born Christian-François Bouche-Villeneuve; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →

b. Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve (1)

Sans soleil is a very interesting film because it's a film about memory and its impossibility, and about the fact that you remember things in a sort of broken line.

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