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Cléo de 5 à 7, Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, ninety
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.
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.
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An important study of a classic film in the French New Wave cinema genre
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Impeccable scholarship on a great film
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Steven Ungar's short volume on Varda's 1962 film CLEO FROM 5 to 7 gives readers a wealth of relevant, fascinating information on the contexts in which CLEO was made--Varda's earlier films, Paris in the early 60s, the state of French filmmaking, political and social and aesthetic references, and the film's critical reception. The book goes through CLEO segment by segment, just enough to give us deep appreciation for the film's complexity and beauty.
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