Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

NR04/11/1962Drama1h 30m
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Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Corinne Marchand

    Florence 'Cléo' Victoire

  2. Cast 1

    Antoine Bourseiller

    Antoine

  3. Cast 1

    Dominique Davray

    Angèle

  4. Cast 1

    Dorothée Blanck

    Dorothée

  5. Cast 1

    Michel Legrand

    Bob, the Pianist

  6. Cast 1

    José Luis de Vilallonga

    José, Cléo's Lover

  7. Loye Payen

    Irma, the Fortune Teller

  8. Renée Duchateau

    The Seller of Hats

  9. Lucienne Marchand

    The Taxi Driver

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 awaits the results of medical tests. In many ways it adopts a video diary sort of format and that means there is plenty herein that isn't the least interesting. Like with most of our daily routines, th...