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| ACTORS: | Corinne Marchand |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Agnès Varda |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1962 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Criterion Collection |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Color, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - French |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 037429149027 |
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Customer Reviews of Cleo From 5 to 7 - Criterion Collection
Queen of the Left Bank This film is one of the finest from the Left Bank film directors. It is not very often that we find such highly regarded female directors, especially in Europe. Agnes Varda, through this film, captures the feelings of "the woman in the spotlight" through Cleo, the seemingly girlish, conceited, but ultimately redeemed pop singer.
We follow Cleo around Paris for 2 hours as she waits for medical test results that could very well be fatal, much of the time being played out onscreen without interruption. Though slow moving at first, we come to understand each of the characters she comes in contact with, Angele, her lover, Antonio, through their treatment of Cleo.
Also notable is the changes which are visible in Cleo, made quite aparant by the master filmmaking of Varda. While at first the object of gazes and adoration, she eventually begins to look outward independently as the camara takes her POV, signifying Cleo's own realization that life as a simply object and plaything of others is wholly unsatisfying.
Note: The film-within-the-film stars none other than the French filmmaker and intimate friend of Varda, Godard (Breathless, A Band of Outsiders).
One of my favorites of all time.
It's odd, I know, to call a film charming when its focus is about a woman's two hours of waiting before finding out if she has cancer. But "Cleo" isn't a sad story about cancer, really. It's a charming story about how to live your life somewhere between the superficial and profound when something alarming happens.
Cleo's a pop singer. She sings light ditties that get French radio play. She spends her time shopping for hats, hanging out in cafes, carrying on meaningless-if-romantic affairs with songwriters. She's beautiful. She's fashionable. On the surface, she looks like she's having a good time. And she usually is.
This movie's about what she did in the two hours before receiving her prognosis from her doctor. Should she just go on and live life as if nothing's come along to trouble her? If she chooses to, how does she go about confronting her own mortality?
Corinne Marchand, as Cleo, chooses both paths for her. As she wanders the streets of Paris, she plays Cleo as though she's unable to decide whether to be happy-go-lucky. Thus, the lush, beautiful film by Agnes Varda is both light and resonant, fun and meaningful.
It's like an "Amelie" that will make you cry as well as laugh.
Done in a style predating the French New Wave, it manages to be about how to go shopping when you may be about to die.
And the Criterion release is just great.
a film which hits home for me
This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film. As a cancer survivor, I feel for the woman in this movie.
This film occurs in almost real-time like the TV series 24. The 90 minute film covers the events between 5 and 7 PM as a woman awaits the results of a biopsy. She goes through town and meets various people. The film has great acting and has a full-color sequence at the beginning of the film when cleo is seeing a Tarot card reader in an attempt to predict what will happen to her. The original French title of the film is "Cléo de 5 à 7"
The Criterion DVD does not have any special features which is rather unusual for a Criterion Collection DVD.