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

2020

Publisher

BFI Publishing

Collection

BFI Film Classics
2nd edition

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 128 pages
5 ¾ x 8 inches (14.5 x 20.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-83871-936-4

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Book Presentation:
Cleo de 5 a 7 (Cleo from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cleo, 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 cinema 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 Cleo'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 Cleo's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a visual document of its historical moment. Steven Ungar's foreword to this new edition looks back upon Varda's film-making career and considers her contributions as a female auteur and in the context of the French New Wave.

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