Cléo from 5 to 7

1962 90 min ★ 7.7 Drama

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.

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Cast

Corinne Marchand

Florence 'Cléo' Victoire

Antoine Bourseiller

Antoine

Dominique Davray

Angèle

Dorothée Blanck

Dorothée

Michel Legrand

Bob, the Pianist

José Luis de Vilallonga

José, Cléo's Lover

Loye Payen

Irma, the Fortune Teller

Renée Duchateau

The Seller of Hats

Lucienne Marchand

The Taxi Driver

Serge Korber

Maurice

Details

Director

Agnès Varda

Tagline

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

Status

Released

Original Language

FR

Production

Rome-Paris Films, Ciné-Tamaris

Reviews

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talisencrw

April 16, 2016

★ 9/10

When I think of interesting filmmakers, the world over, whose movies are always a pleasure to watch, I thank God every day for Agnès Varda. I had her '4 Films by' Criterion boxed set, seemingly forever, left unwatched, and I don't really know why. Perhaps I felt her films wouldn't excite me enough, I don't know. I certainly enjoy foreign, and French, filmmaking enough. Maybe it was because she was...

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CinemaSerf

November 19, 2024

★ 7/10

It's actually quite hard to write an objective review about this film. Why? Well, that is because the eponymous singer (Corinne Marchand) has a personality that offers us very little to like. She is a hypochondriac who is obsessed with the thought that she might have cancer. Desperate for a second opinion, she consults a mystic and then we follow her for the remainder of her afternoon whilst she a...