Sans Soleil

One of the gems of non-narrative cinema, this is less a documentary or an avant-garde travelogue than an audio-visual barrage of potent ideas that challenges you to keep pace with its quicksilver intelligence.

...the visual collage is never dull.

You're unlikely to see any film this year that is both as intellectually challenging and formally adventurous as Sans Soleil (Sunless).

...touches on a variety of cogent and provocative issues and features bleak, sharply intelligent verbal observations about several different cultures.