Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
Cast and Information
Directed By: Agnès Varda
Written By: Agnès Varda
Starring: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina, Eddie Constantine, Sami Frey, Corinne Marchand, Dominique Davray, José Luis de Vilallonga, Antoine Bourseiller, Michel Legrand, Dorothée Blank, Loye Payen
AKA: Cléo de 5 à 7
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MartinTeller | 75 54th |
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Kind of lukewarm on this one. I liked the photography, including the excellent use of tracking shots, and the score was very nice. But I didn't really care what happened to this silly, spoiled, drama queen, who by the end of the picture is only slightly more bearable. But bonus points for the interesting real-time narrative structure.
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Magb | 70 39th |
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Tons of fantastic camera work (some of those car tracking shots are among the best shit I've ever seen), sound design and music, but the story and the arc of the main character were underwhelming to me.
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djross | 80 91st |
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Death or transformation: a phenomenology of perception as conditioned by intentionality, and an account of the potential for something like a caesura in the flow of life's course to lead to psychic rearrangement. Simple, subtle and quietly affecting, with some great moments (e.g., the instantaneous change of tone in the Legrand scene when she begins to sing "Sans toi"). Varda and Demy seem to share an understanding of how tracking shots possess a strange capacity to generate a mood.
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bof | 81 86th |
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People got a lot more done in two hours in the good old days, evidently. I'm still not sold on most of the New Wave I've seen, but I really like how Varda ensouls a supposedly fairly superficial character and a bunch of random everyday goings-on with the spectre of mortality, the war and violence looming just beyond, the certainty of uncertainty... Also, there's boobies.
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SlrSoapbox | 30 8th |
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Beautifully photographed and has great music, but it sent me to sleep. (But that may be because I was watching it in a lecture hall of 400 students) I didn't feel any compulsion to give a damn about this title's spoiled little drama queen.
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Pickpocket | 9 93rd |
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Really simple story that was totally original for the time. The camera work is incredible. Varda could've stopped here and contributed more to cinema than most directors ever have. Very overlooked movie from the french new wave
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PeaceAnarchy | 86 84th |
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The film is deceptively simple, following Cleo over the span of two hours as she awaits her medical test results. The photography is alittle tight but very charming in its own way and while not much happens eventwise in the film, a lot happens with the character of Cleo. Some of the secondary actors are not very good but Corinne Marchand is wonderful in the lead and draws you in to her thoughts and feelings with her reactions to the world around her.
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BillyShears | 80 77th |
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They pick French New Wave nonsense films for film classes because the hint of maybe seeing a boob will keep many a student from nodding off
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mattorama12 | 62 40th |
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I unfortunately didn't find Cleo to be a particularly interesting or engaging character. But damn, Varda sure directs the shit out of it. Perhaps I'd appreciate Cleo's crisis more on a second viewing.
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juntakinte99 | 50 9th |
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Intellectually, I get that writer-director Agnes Varda is telling a philosophical story on the existential concerns of women. But you can do that while making an engaging picture. It's a melodramatic soap opera with perfume commercial visuals. The construction is odd: unnecessary chapters, monotonous tone, jagged music, and a childish recurring theme of the hero believing superstitions. It's hard to recommend--even for film students looking for alternatives to the French New Wave canon. Avoid.
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psiXaos | 85 91st |
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Varda had used elements from French New Wave and German Expressionism to tell how our perception of life is closely tied to our perception of ourselves here. It is a film with many delicate details that has the possibility of growing in oneself over time.
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Moribunny | 48 35th |
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Cleo goes around the city getting bad omens prior to receiving the results of a medical test. A typical product of the French New Wave, Cleo From 5 to 7 is young, kinetic, features innovative camerawork and use of music similar to Godard, and is very cerebral. In fact, I thought it was overly cerebral but with a repressed undercurrent of melodrama that bursts out at key points of the plot. Sworn Godard freaks should probably see this, but to me it's unremarkable.
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Nathan S | 5 93rd |
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That feeling of not knowing what to do with your hands. The excruciating anxiety of hyper-awareness, of oneself and one's surroundings, and the mere passing of time is dreadful. I'm not sure another film has captured that agitated state so well. What a relief to lose yourself for a moment - in a new outfit, or an amusing movie, or for a brief respite at a familiar watering hole. Beyond all that, it's a fun and enlightening transport to the Parisian streets, fashions, and arts of the 1960s.
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twincinema | 85 85th |
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What the heck was going on in France in 1962? A man eating living frogs? A dude with a sword in his arm? Those dudes are cool as heck.
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Luna6ix | 76 57th |
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Remember the Hitchcock quote? "Movies are just like life, with all the boring parts cut out." Apparently Varda didn't get the memo. At some places, however, a faint glimpse of beauty shines through, the way a person's hair blows in the wind, the way the sun shines on a car. It's not enough to make this a great movie, but it's enough to make it watchable.
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JPFerguson | 91 96th |
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One of those films that is so packed with content and style that it's a full on barrage. Only in the hands of a master film maker does such an assemblage make for more than the sum of its parts. And Varda is certainly a master in that regard as she shows so clearly here. Fundamentally this is a film about death, more specifically being-toward death. As Cleo traverses Paris she starts to realise authentic being.
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MonsterGear | 78 50th |
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Interesting structure and camera work, and an amazing use of a song to bring depth to a character that really doesn't seem to have a lot otherwise. Sure, the leading lady can be frustrating at times but it's an interesting film all the same.
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frederic_g54 | 9 90th |
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More than just a selfish cry for attention, Cleo's existential crisis is marked by a yearning for a genuine human connection, something I think anyone can relate to. While hopelessly flawed, she's anything but unlikable, a memorable character who despite her self-centeredness manages to invite the audience's sympathy. Varda's dialogues and direction are top notch.
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amerigo | 72 30th |
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Slightly depressing, but mostly boring with occasional moments of inspiration.
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tonydal | 80 74th |
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Could've done without the time-division supers.
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Icarus | 95 96th |
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Such a rich film, thematically and visually. Life, death, life. Isolation and connection. Aimless, purpose. There is much here to take in. And visually, the film never ceases to engage, with its regular use of close up, jump cuts, and naturalistic style. I am especially smitten with one cut near the end, Cleo and Antoine on a bench, then cut to extreme wide shot, a Lebanon cedar in the background. Beautifully and affectingly done.
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This moves so much (and gives a great view of Paris in the 60's in the process) that it should be hard to make it uninteresting, and yet all the talking really doesn't do much for me.
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AndreasThau | 75 68th |
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Thank you, Agnes, for letting me be in room with Corinne Marchand for 90 minutes without pause. That should get the message through to everybody looking: always look at the bright side of things. Corinne finds some kind of bright side of mortality, so how could I ever find darkness in anything just because of my everyday problems? Ps. Fuck, those new wave basterds knew who to work a camera.
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FancyMike | 5 90th |
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Wow. I need to see more from her but on first viewing this might just put Varda ahead of her French New Wave contemporaries for me. Cléo is one of the most fully realized characters I've ever seen on film and there is an emotional depth to it all that I've been missing in other New Wave works. That shot of Cléo and Antoine walking at the end is perfect
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PerryStroika | 73 90th |
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This is best understood as a flaneur film, an hour and a half of a woman wandering around Paris while she waits for the results of her biopsy, more or less in real time. Don't expect conventional plot or suspense. Cleo's vulnerable state as a woman on the edge of transformation leaves her open to everything as she studies the faces on the people on the bus and witnesses scenes of life in the great metropolis. It's greatness is in its portrayal of the delicate turning of her mental weather.
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goremeat | 80 76th |
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Cleo was an amusing tapestry of characters and 60's Parisian lifestyles, before it took a strange turn with a conversation in a park and sudden mortality. I have more praise for the camera movement and locations, but some frowning for portions of the writing.
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lisa- | 5 70th |
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both an exploration of a woman who's panicking about the possibility of having cancer and a day in the life of a famous singer. i have a lot of experience with the former and none with the latter. the parts focused more on the panicking are better, because some of the romance-related stuff is a bit cheesy. largely though it's up there with the bulk of the new wave.
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backwardsuit | 80 80th |
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Fantastic anti chick flick (until it isn't) that occasionally goes all French on you. Good acting, great cinematography and more pointed use of editing than most of the New Wave I've seen. I wasn't a big fan of the use of music but it goes together with the films overall slide into melodramatic fairytale at the end. An excellent portrayal of anxiety associated with the conceptions of femininity that treats its existentialism with enough suspicion.
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It's like Breathless but good.
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| 1 | onyedi | 65 41st |
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All French movies are the same. Stylish but empty.
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| 1 | tenderbrew | 4 0th |
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Making an unlikeable character interesting. Surprisingly out of all the French New Wave I've been through so far, really enjoyed this one, and lots of awesome long shots in cars.
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metis | 75 59th |
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8??????????????????
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| Average Percentile 70.52% from 1301 Ratings |  |