Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) by Agnès Varda — Movie Discussion
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Cléo (Corinne Marchand), a young and upcoming pop singer, anxiously awaits the possibly dire results of a biopsy as she wanders the streets of sixties Paris. A chronicle of two crucial hours in one woman's life.
"In real time, Cléo becomes more real, more subject than object, more human, more in tune with the city... She performs less and feels more." (Sight and Sound)
"The film often reveals something about human nature not through pathos but tongue-in-cheek humor. Yet the film's best moments combine both." (MUBI)
"An almost literal slice of life, as its title suggests, Cléo allows Varda to illustrate beautifully the lost world surrounding those too stuck in their own heads — and, more pointedly, too caught up in the role-playing expected of women." (A.V. Club)
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Let's discuss the movie Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) written and directed by the French New Wave filmmaker and artist Agnès Varda. The movie was recently voted the 14th greatest movie of all time in Sight & Sound's international survey of film critics and experts and the 52nd greatest of all time in the related poll of film directors. Varda called her film "a portrait of a woman painted on to a documentary about Paris”.
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