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Cleo de 5 a 7 (1962)

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Reviews Counted:15

Fresh:14

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8.4/10

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: Agnes Varda's signature strategy of mixing documentary and fiction comes to fruition in this intimate and fluid portrait of two hours in the life of pop singer Cleo Victoire (Corrine Marchand) as... Agnes Varda's signature strategy of mixing documentary and fiction comes to fruition in this intimate and fluid portrait of two hours in the life of pop singer Cleo Victoire (Corrine Marchand) as she restlessly awaits the results of a cancer test. With a distinctly feminist take on the French New Wave films of the early 1960s, Varda's film examines Cleo's banal yet extraordinary afternoon as she traverses Paris, bouncing back and forth between various men, intercepting and avoiding friends, enemies, superstitions, chance, and eventually love. The camera follows at breakneck speed as Cleo's existential ennui pulls her through the city (beautifully captured by Jean Rabier's sweeping cinematography). Lively characters populate Cleo's journey, ranging from a tough female cabdriver, Cleo's mothering assistant, her blasé boyfriend, and finally a talkative and intriguing stranger, a young soldier (Antoine Bourseiller) spending his last hours in Paris before shipping off to war. As Cleo's perspectives are completely rearranged by the specter of possible illness, Varda describes a world of life, possibilities, and love. [More]

Starring: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dorothee Blank, Michel Legrand

Starring: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dorothee Blank, Michel Legrand, Jose-Luis De Villalonga

Director: Agnes Varda

Director: Agnes Varda
Screenwriter: Agnes Varda
Producer: Georges De Beauregard
Composer: Joanna Bruzdowicz

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May 16, 2000

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02/29/08
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
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Varda could have stopped after "Cleo From 5 to 7" with the assurance that she'd contributed more to cinema than most directors.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
01/01/07
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

Varda transforms the typical French cinema gamine into a complex, tragic figure: the girl who's all too good at playing plaything, forced to face the hollowness of her youth.

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11/21/06
Ed Halter
Ed Halter
Village Voice
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Varda uses her documentary skills to take an objective approach to the material, rather than a sentimental one. It's amazing how much can happen in two hours.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
11/13/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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... has its spirited moments.

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08/10/06
Dennis Schwartz
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03/09/06
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

Not every minute is as spirited as Varda would like us to believe, but in the cinema of enchantment this ranks pretty high.

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02/09/06
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07/03/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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Generally, Mlle. Varda is so absorbed with her camera stunts, as she is in that scene in the hat shop or when she is screening that comedy short, that the essential concentration on the heroine is neglected and the interest lost.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/09/05
Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
New York Times
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As good as almost any entry from the French New Wave...a devastating portrait of running out of time...

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10/07/04
Gabe Leibowitz
Gabe Leibowitz
eCinemaCenter.com

By most accounts, photographer-turned-director Agnès Varda is considered the archetypal girl who crashed the big boys’ clubhouse, and Cléo from 5 to 7 was the film that paid her membership fee.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
07/12/03
Eric Henderson
Eric Henderson
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Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/25/03
Channel 4 Film

Why Agnes Varda's Cleo From 5 to 7 is not considered a classic of the French New Wave on the order of Truffaut's The 400 Blows or Godard's Breathless is a complete mystery. Well, I tell a lie.

Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
04/03/03
Matt Bailey
Matt Bailey
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Told in real time, Agnès Varda's film has tons of heart and brains to match.

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01/29/03
Christopher Null
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