1962 · drama
Cléo from 5 to 7
Directed by Agnès Varda1h 30m1962
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.
Our read: Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- signature
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