Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda

 
  • France
  • 1962
  • 89 minutes
  • 1.66:1
  • French

SYNOPSIS: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) 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 (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

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Cast

CléoCorinne Marchand
Antoine, the soldierAntoine Bourseiller
DorothéeDorothée Blank
BobMichel Legrand
L'amantJosé-Luis de Villalonga

Credits

DirectorAgnès Varda
ScreenplayAgnès Varda
ProducerCarlo Ponti and Georges de Beauregard
CinematographyJean Rabier
EditingJanine Verneau and Pascale Laverrière
MusicMichel Legrand

Disc Features

  • New, restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Agnès Varda
  • Remembrances (2005), a documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Varda and actors Corinne Marchand and Antoine Bourseiller
  • Gallery of paintings by Hans Baldung Grien, whose work inspired the character of Cléo
  • Excerpt from a 1993 French television program featuring Madonna and Varda talking about the film
  • Cléo’s Real Path Through Paris (2005), a short film retracing, on a motorcycle, Cléo’s steps through Paris
  • Les fiancés du pont Macdonald (1961), a short film directed by Varda, featuring some of her new wave colleagues, with Varda explaining why the film was featured in Cléo
  • L’opéra Mouffe (1958), an early short by Varda, with a score by Georges Delerue
  • Theatrical trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: A new essay by Adrian Martin and a written introduction by Agnès Varda

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Film Essays

Cléo from 5 to 7: Passionate Time

By Adrian MartinJanuary 21, 2008

There have been many films, from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) to Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark (2002), devoted to the challenge of capturing or reconstituting Read more »

Cléo from 5 to 7

By Molly HaskellMay 15, 2000

Agnes Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7, the first fully-achieved feature by the woman who would become the premiere female director of her generation, dazzled when it opened, and looks Read more »

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