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Cléo from 5 to 7
Comedy, Drama - 1962
Cléo from 5 to 7
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7.9
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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:
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Agnès Varda
Cast:
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José Luis de Vilallonga
,
Jean-Luc Godard
,
Corinne Marchand
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Antoine Bourseiller
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Dominique Davray
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Michel Legrand
,
Anna Karina
,
Dorothée Blanck

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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
90 min
Release date:
11 Apr 1962
Country:
FR, IT
Languages:
French
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination

Top Critics Reviews

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,
9 Feb 2006
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,
9 May 2005
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,
21 Nov 2006
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