Cléo de 5 à 7

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by Steven Ungar

Type: Studies
Subject: One Film > Cléo from 5 to 7
Keywords: Agnès Varda
Publishing date: 2008
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Publisher: BFI Publishing
Collection: BFI Film Classics
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 96 pages
5 ¾ x 7 inches (14.5 x 18 cm)

ISBN

978-1-84457-176-5

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Cléo de 5 à 7, Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, ninety minutes in the life of Cléo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition. The film, whose visual beauty matches its evocation of early-Fifth Republic Paris, was a major point of reference for the French New Wave despite the fact that Varda never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du cinéma group of critics-turned- film-makers. Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic contexts, tracing Varda's early career as a student of art history and as a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Cléo's health concerns and ambitions to become a pop singer make her more or less oblivious. His study is the first to set a reading of Cléo's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a visual document of its historical moment.

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