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