This enigmatic diagram was found at the Pacific Film Archive in 1990. It seems to provide a kind of map for the locations and temporal flow of Sans Soleil. We welcome your interpretations. Click the image for a larger view.
I like the division of the work into five acts – but whose idea is that? There are similarities with several musical forms too – theme and variations, rondo, maybe even sonata form.
Nice reflections, thanks. I was getting lonely with no comments of late…:< I wonder if there might be some subterranean correlation with the Mussorgsky piece that the movie is named after?
Sunless (Russian: Без солнца, Bez Solntsa, literally Without Sun) is a song cycle by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in 1874, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a relative of the composer.
I like the division of the work into five acts – but whose idea is that? There are similarities with several musical forms too – theme and variations, rondo, maybe even sonata form.
(the fifth act being what the map calls “GEN” btw)
Nice reflections, thanks. I was getting lonely with no comments of late…:< I wonder if there might be some subterranean correlation with the Mussorgsky piece that the movie is named after?