Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) Reviews
This is London
Definitely a document from lost-past times.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Guardian [UK]
The Parisian streetscapes are beautiful and thrilling, and the tarot scene at the beginning, combined with overheard fragments of anxious city lives, give this something of TS Eliot.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Daily Telegraph
Race to see Agnes Varda's exquisite 1962 New Wave masterpiece, about an hour and a half in the life of a gorgeous, possibly dying chanteuse.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Empire Magazine
One of the Nouvelle Vague's boldest achievements.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Financial Times
Like many New Wave films, Cléo from 5 to 7 alternates between ambiguity and charm on the one hand, vagueness and whimsy on the other.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Radio Times
This remarkable feature typifies all that was good in French film-making during its celebrated New Wave.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Arizona Daily Star
Varda could have stopped after "Cleo From 5 to 7" with the assurance that she'd contributed more to cinema than most directors.
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| Original Score: 4/4
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.
Combustible Celluloid
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.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
... has its spirited moments.
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| Original Score: B+
Time Out
Top CriticNot every minute is as spirited as Varda would like us to believe, but in the cinema of enchantment this ranks pretty high.
eCinemaCenter.com
As good as almost any entry from the French New Wave...a devastating portrait of running out of time...
| Original Score: 5/5
Slant Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
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.
Filmcritic.com
Told in real time, Agnès Varda's film has tons of heart and brains to match.
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| Original Score: 4/5
