Black and White in Color
February 06, 2013
Film Info
- France
- 1962
- 89 minutes
- 1.66:1
- French
- Spine #73
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
| 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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Cléo from 5 to 7: Passionate Time
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Cléo from 5 to 7
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Agnes Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7, the first fully-achieved feature by the woman who would . . . Read more »
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Cléo from 5 to 7: Passionate Time
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There have been many films, from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) to Alexander Sokurov’s Russian . . . Read more »
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Cléo from 5 to 7
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Agnes Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7, the first fully-achieved feature by the woman who would . . . Read more »
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Cléo from 5 to 7: Passionate Time
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There have been many films, from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) to Alexander Sokurov’s Russian . . . Read more »
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Cléo from 5 to 7
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Agnes Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7, the first fully-achieved feature by the woman who would . . . Read more »
