CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962)
Friday, January 10 | 7 pm
Director: AGNES VARDA
Country of Origin: France
Language: French
Runtime: 90
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this landmark of the French New Wave. A real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand, riveting) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy, the film chronicles 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 (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. It’s the most popular and arguably finest film from one of the century’s great cinema artists, and also one of the most compelling cinematic love letters to a time and place.