Cleo from 5 to 7
(1962)
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Cleo from 5 to 7
(1962)
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| Corinne Marchand | ... |
Florence, 'Cléo Victoire'
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Antoine Bourseiller | ... |
Antoine
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Dominique Davray | ... |
Angèle
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Dorothée Blanck | ... |
Dorothée
(as Dorothée Blank)
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Michel Legrand | ... |
Bob, the Pianist
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José Luis de Vilallonga | ... |
The Lover
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Loye Payen | ... |
Irma, la cartomancienne
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Renée Duchateau |
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Lucienne Marchand | ... |
La conductrice du taxi
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Serge Korber | ... |
Plumitif (the lyricist)
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Robert Postec | ... |
Le docteur Valineau
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Arthur Brunet |
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This movie shows us Cléo, a French singer, who is afraid of getting the result of of a test from her doctor. She believes that she has cancer and will die of the disease. We follow her for two hours while she cruises through the streets of Paris. At the end, she meets a soldier who is going to the war in Algeria the next day. Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
I have to say that I never tire of watching this film. It is one of those films where form and content, style and substance, merge to form a great work of art.
The character of Cleo, a beautiful young singer forced to accept a possible diagnosis of cancer, is both iconic and true to life. I love the shots of her walking the streets, shot from a birds' eye view and you hear the comments of men as she's walking by. Varda's objectifies her from this angle as she pops out from the scene with her puffy wig and polka dot dress, and in the background is just this incredible music. The camera-work is so varied and so strong throughout the film. There are objective angles, subjective angles, there are playful movements of the camera to go with the music, a back and forth with the mirrors in the cafe, in the hat shop, slow, soft, out of focus movements in bed as she waits for her lover, zoom transitions as she sings her song, Slow pans in the art studio. One scene I liked especially was the scattering of the birds as she's walking down the street. It seems to signify, so well, to me a sign of a bad omen tied to almost a mythological scale.
These are my scattered impressions of this film, a perfect film in my opinion.