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Cléo from 5 to 7

The whole world... has made an appointment with...

7.7 / 10

90 minutes

1962-04-11

French

FR

Actors :

Corinne Marchand, Dominique Davray, Antoine Bourseiller, Dorothée Blanck, José Luis de Vilallonga, Loye Payen, Michel Legrand, Serge Korber, Lucienne Marchand, Renée Duchateau, Robert Postec, Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Emilienne Caille, Eddie Constantine

Description

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. 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 and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Reviews

talisencrw

talisencrw

6/23/2021, 3:57:46 PM

When I think of interesting filmmakers, the world over, whose movies are always a pleasure to watch, I thank God every day for Agnès Varda. I had her '4 Films by' Criterion boxed set, seemingly forever, left unwatched, and I don't really know why. Perhaps I felt her films wouldn't excite me enough, I don't know. I certainly enjoy foreign, and French, filmmaking enough. Maybe it was because she was...