Cleo from 5 to 7

  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Agnès Varda
  • France 1962
  • 90 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

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. Varda uses a unique (for the time) structure of following a woman in "real" time to explore the fear of death.

Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. A key work of the French New Wave, the film is moving, lyrical, and mysterious.

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  • Director Agnès Varda
  • Production Agnès Varda, Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti
  • Script Agnès Varda
  • Cinematography Jean Rabier
  • Editing Pascale Laverrière
  • Music Michel Legrand
  • Actors Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck, Michel Legrand
  • Source MK2, Paris