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Cléo from 5 to 7

Original title: Cléo de 5 à 7
  • 1962
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 30m
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7.8/10
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Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
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Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

  • Director
    • Agnès Varda
  • Writer
    • Agnès Varda
  • Stars
    • Corinne Marchand
    • Antoine Bourseiller
    • Dominique Davray
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    30K
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    • Director
      • Agnès Varda
    • Writer
      • Agnès Varda
    • Stars
      • Corinne Marchand
      • Antoine Bourseiller
      • Dominique Davray
    • 108User reviews
    • 81Critic reviews
    • 87Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Corinne Marchand
    Corinne Marchand
    • Florence 'Cléo' Victoire
    Antoine Bourseiller
    • Antoine
    Dominique Davray
    Dominique Davray
    • Angèle
    Dorothée Blanck
    Dorothée Blanck
    • Dorothée
    • (as Dorothée Blank)
    Michel Legrand
    Michel Legrand
    • Bob, le pianiste
    José Luis de Vilallonga
    José Luis de Vilallonga
    • José, l'amant de Cléo
    • (as José-Luis de Vilallonga)
    Loye Payen
    Loye Payen
    • Irma, la cartomancienne
    Renée Duchateau
    • La vendeuse de chapeaux
    Lucienne Marchand
    • La conductrice du taxi
    Serge Korber
    • Maurice, dit 'plumitif'
    Robert Postec
    Robert Postec
    • Le docteur Valineau
    Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard
    • L'homme aux lunettes noires…
    Anna Karina
    Anna Karina
    • Anna, la fiancée blonde…
    Emilienne Caille
    • La fiancée noire…
    Eddie Constantine
    Eddie Constantine
    • L'arroseur…
    Sami Frey
    Sami Frey
    • Le croque-mort…
    Danièle Delorme
    Danièle Delorme
    • La vendeuse de fleurs…
    Yves Robert
    Yves Robert
    • Le vendeur de mouchoirs…
    • Director
      • Agnès Varda
    • Writer
      • Agnès Varda
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    10gsygsy

    A thousand stars

    A film about living life in the shadow of death, about how viewing the world without sunglasses lets in the light, and shows us the truth. This beautful movie is made with surging energy and a lightness of touch by Agnes Varda, the immortal poet of French cinema. It is superbly constructed while feeling as if it were being made up as it goes along. The camera captures a Paris that in some ways has disappeared but in others is still with us and which I hope will remain forever.

    Corinne Marchand is forever Cleo, a singer waiting for the result of a recent medical test. When she sings her "Sans Toi", your eyes will fill with tears; when she vamps her way down the steps in Montsouris Park, you'll smile your broadest smile. Around her, life teems -- friends, colleagues, strangers and their children, animals, trees, overheard conversations, momentary remarks -- all observed with a keen eye and endless compassion by Varda and her team.

    Ten stars for this? No. A thousand. It's beyond rating. For me, this sits among the highest achievements of cinema. CLEO will live forever.
    8Jediclampett

    Life and Movement in the shadow of Death

    "Cleo from 5 to 7" tells the story of a young French singer, who fears that she may be seriously ill. What could have been maudlin "movie of the week" soap opera, is transformed by Agnes Varda into a unique movie experience.

    The film contrasts Cleo's fear of death with the teeming life of the Paris streets, where street entertainers swallow live frogs and puncture their biceps; and the more normal members of the crowd busy themselves with the usual affairs of business and the heart. A large amount of the film takes place outdoors, with Cleo and the people in her life always walking, running or driving. There is a wonderful scene of Cleo-Distraught over an ominous tarot reading by the fortune teller- descending a circular staircase, her shoe heels clicking out a counterpoint to Michel Legrand's pensive music.

    Sometimes just watching the way someone moves is very revealing. Director Varda has a fluid camera style which enlivens every scene. As often happens in European art films the story unfolds in a slow undramatic fashion, but their is so much going on in the image and the text, that you don't mind. Essential viewing.
    8sara-34

    An existential film about looking on the bright side (ironically).

    To me, this is a movie about looking on the bright side of life... from the point of view of someone who isn't. We follow Cleo, a beautiful singer, through a day of her life (from 5:00 to 7:00) as she waits to find out if she has cancer. It's a very simple plot, and I think this simplicity is what allows the film to show Cleo's inner turmoil so well. This movie has strong existential undertones. In the beginning of the film, Cleo believes her fate is just that: fate. She is superstitious to the point of paranoia. Through the course of the film, she discovers that she is in control of her own life, and even in something that seems out of her control -- like cancer -- she has the freedom to decide how she will look at it and whether or not she will let it ruin her life.
    9Liza-19

    A fabulous film, totally engrossing

    I loved this film. I wasn't expecting to, but from the very beginning you are drawn into Cleo's world. You understand a woman whom nobody understands, something that is extremely hard to do but Agnes Varda carries it off beautifully. Her coworkers don't care for her, her lover isn't really in-tune with her life, and her best friend likes her, but is busy with her own life. It isn't until she meets the someone new, someone who like herself is about to face a real danger, that she not only faces her problem, but can in a sense conquer it. It's not an easy film to explain, but it's beautifully done and a true winner. I heard that they want to remake it with Madonna. It would be nice for it to be in English, but a remake isn't necessary. They certainly got it right the first time.
    scip111

    Why I love French Film

    This film is a perfect example of why I love French film. In a word, realism. In many words, the desire to capture life's most important, daring, fanciful, yet haphazard moments with the faith that by doing so you are illustrating a timeless notion. Cleo from 5 to 7 plucks a single string from a singer's life and by pulling at it, illustrates the fabric of the beautiful and unique, but predetermined world that it is woven into. What illustrates this best is the third scene of the movie when the heroine flits about a local shop browsing hats. The camera shows her shopping but also captures many reflections that expose the larger world around her. The window pane showcases soldiers marching by, foreshadowing the war in Algiers. The mirrors take snapshots of Cleo with different head-dresses all be-speaking a future she won't choose. In the background, her maid sits disapprovingly. Small details like these, that are often neglected in other movies, are the backbone of this work of art. Cleo from 5 to 7 is a movie about much more than two hours in the lead character's life. It is about the character's whole life as illustrated by two hours. Like Joyce's Uylsses, it finds parallels between the struggles of a day with the struggles of a life.

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    • Trivia
      Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Emilienne Caille, Eddie Constantine, Sami Frey, Danièle Delorme, Yves Robert, Alan Scott, Georges de Beauregard and Jean-Claude Brialy all make uncredited cameo appearances as the actors in the silent film shown to Cléo and her friend. In the extras on the Criterion Collection DVD, the movie is called "The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald (1961)".
    • Goofs
      The dolly track used in the final shot can be seen as the actors walk away from the hospital. Agnes Varda recounts in the much later documentary 'Anecdotes and Memories' how devastated she was to see the track and convinced the producers to allow a re-shoot at great expense. However none of the retakes matched the emotional quality of the original take so she retained it despite the goof.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      [in French, using English subtitles]

      Florence, 'Cléo Victoire': Why?

      Antoine: I'm sorry I'm leaving. I'd like to be with you.

      Florence, 'Cléo Victoire': You are. I think my fear is gone. I think I'm happy.

    • Connections
      Edited from The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald (1961)
    • Soundtracks
      La Belle Putain
      Music by Michel Legrand

      Lyrics by Agnès Varda

      Performed by Corinne Marchand

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    • Release date
      • April 11, 1962 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Italy
    • Official site
      • Ciné Tamaris (France)
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Cléo de 5 a 7
    • Filming locations
      • Escalier, Rue des Artistes, Paris 14, Paris, France(Stairs when Cléo says goodbye to Dorothée after taxi ride scene)
    • Production companies
      • Ciné-tamaris
      • MK2 Films
      • Rome Paris Films
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $9,929
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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