Cléo from 5 to 7

Cléo from 5 to 7

4/9/1962 1h 30m 7.7/10

Overview

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.

Director

Agnès Varda

Top Billed Cast

Antoine Bourseiller

Antoine Bourseiller

Antoine

Dominique Davray

Dominique Davray

Angèle

Corinne Marchand

Corinne Marchand

Florence 'Cléo' Victoire

Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand

Bob, the Pianist

José Luis de Vilallonga

José Luis de Vilallonga

José, Cléo's Lover

Dorothée Blanck

Dorothée Blanck

Dorothée

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

11/19/2024

7/10

It's actually quite hard to write an objective review about this film. Why? Well, that is because the eponymous singer (Corinne Marchand) has a personality that offers us very little to like. She is a hypochondriac who is obsessed with the thought that she might have cancer. Desperate for a second opinion, she consults a mystic and then we follow her for the remainder of her afternoon whilst she awaits the results of medical tests. In many ways it adopts a video diary sort of format and that means there is plenty herein that isn't the least interesting. Like with most of our daily routines, there is not that much of interest going on. She meets her lover, José (José Luis de Vilallonga) an unsympathetic man well used to her behaviour and a soldier "Antoine" (Antoine Bourseiller) who is enthralled by her, but who is also facing deployment in the soon to be independent Algeria. I liked the style of the photography. It has an intimacy to it. The score from Michel Legrand (who also features playing piano) also adds a richness to this, but for the most part this is quite a curiously dry observational effort from Agnès Varda. If you can see it on a big screen then do try - on a smaller one it can struggle to retain the attention a little.

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