Cléo from 5 to 7

Cléo from 5 to 7

The whole world... has made an appointment with...

Rating

4.5 (1)

Release Date

4/11/1962

Runtime

90 mins

Genres

Overview

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer 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 and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Homepage

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A luminous real-time wandering through Paris as a woman confronts her mortality during a single afternoon. Varda transforms existential dread into intimate poetry, balancing the mundane rhythms of the city with the quietly shattering interior life of someone waiting for news that will change everything.

Mood

ContemplativeWistful

Themes

MortalityIdentityIsolationFreedom

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Black and whiteDocumentary-likeNaturalistic

Structure

Single location

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