Cléo from 5 to 7: Passionate Time
By January 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 »
- 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.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Cléo | Corinne Marchand |
| Antoine, the soldier | Antoine Bourseiller |
| Dorothée | Dorothée Blank |
| Bob | Michel Legrand |
| L'amant | José-Luis de Villalonga |
Credits
| Director | Agnès Varda |
| Screenplay | Agnès Varda |
| Producer | Carlo Ponti and Georges de Beauregard |
| Cinematography | Jean Rabier |
| Editing | Janine Verneau and Pascale Laverrière |
| Music | Michel 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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