Made up mostly of still images, La Jetee scarcely qualifies as a motion picture. Avant-garde French filmmaker Chris Marker instead employs a dazzling montage, along with narration, music, and sound effects, in this time-travel tale that inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995). Bending the travelog genre while exploring the nature of experience, Sans Soleil visits Japan, plus France, Iceland, and, finally, San Francisco, for locations used in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958).
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