Fresh
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.
Ed Halter, Village Voice
Cléo from 5 to 7
The whole world... has made an appointment with...
1962 · 1h 30m · Not Rated
Drama
Directed by
Agnès Varda
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Cléo from 5 to 7
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 and cast
- Agnès Varda Director
- Corinne Marchand as Florence 'Cléo' Victoire
- Antoine Bourseiller as Antoine
- Dominique Davray as Angèle
- Dorothée Blanck as Dorothée
- Michel Legrand as Bob, the Pianist
- José Luis de Vilallonga as José, Cléo's Lover
- Loye Payen as Irma, the Fortune Teller
- Renée Duchateau as The Seller of Hats
- Lucienne Marchand as The Taxi Driver
- Serge Korber as Maurice
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Not every minute is as spirited as Varda would like us to believe, but in the cinema of enchantment this ranks pretty high.
Time Out
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