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Cléo from 5 to 7 (French: Cléo de 5 à 7 [kle.o də sɛ̃k a sɛt]) is a 1962 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Agnès Varda.
Cléo from 5 to 7: Directed by Agnès Varda. With Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck. Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
Selfish pop singer Cléo (Corinne Marchand) has two hours to wait until the results of her biopsy come back. After an ominous tarot card reading, she visits her friends, all of whom fail to give...
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Cléo from 5 to 7, number two in the poll, was only her second feature, but it is pure Varda. No one else would have taken such a simple, dismal-sounding premise – a woman waiting over the course...
Prepared for the worst, and with almost two hours to kill, mournful Cléo meanders through the sun-blessed streets of the picturesque Parisian metropolis, struggling to understand and come to terms with illness and mortality during a long, eventful, thirteen-chapter evening from 5 to 7.
Jun 28, 2022 · A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. Written & Directed by Agnès Varda. Produced by Georges de Beauregard.
Cléo from 5 to 7. Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy.
Jan 21, 2008 · Agnès Varda’s 1961 Cléo from 5 to 7—an account of an hour and a half in the life of a normally carefree young woman who is gravely awaiting a medical diagnosis—is one of them, but it dispenses with the single-camera-take concept that Hitchcock cleverly faked (and that Sokurov would heroically maintain); it is as jazzily photographed and ...
Jul 26, 2023 · In Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7, the Cléo of the title, a self-absorbed pop singer played by Corinne Marchand, spends an anxious day in her home city of Paris awaiting a possible cancer ...
Arriving with the first surge of the French New Wave, Cléo from 5 to 7 crackles with the energy and modernity of that cinephile movement, but it’s ultimately an introspective piece, characterised by the philosophical preoccupations of Varda’s Left Bank peers.
