Cléo de 5 a 7
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Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cléo, 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 cinéma 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 Cléo'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 Cléo'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.
Table of Contents
Foreword to the 2020 edition
Introduction: Sense of Time, Sense of Place
Part I.
Between photography and film
Absolute beginner?
The pregnant gaze
Part II.
A film about time and space
By the clock and on the map
Part III.
Painting Fear Paris
How many Cléos
Notes
Credits
Product details
| Published | 28 May 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Pages | 128 |
| ISBN | 9781838719364 |
| Imprint | British Film Institute |
| Illustrations | 60 bw and 1 colour illus |
| Dimensions | 190 x 135 mm |
| Series | BFI Film Classics |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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