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Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 1 EAN: 9780780023239 Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0780023234 Label: Criterion Languages: Manufacturer: Criterion MPN: 60 Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Letterbox Publisher: Criterion Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 16, 2000 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Criterion Theatrical Release Date: 1962 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Agnes Varda, the lone woman in the French New Wave boys' club, made her reputation with her second feature Cleo from 5 to 7, a 90-minute drama set in real time exploring the internal turmoil of a flighty young pop singer who awaits the results of a medical examination for cancer. Leaving behind her elegant, almost antiseptic apartment for the bustle of the Parisian streets, she weaves through crowds and watches street performers while struggling with her fears and self-recriminations, confronting her shortcomings and finding hope in a chance meeting with a young soldier. Varda captures the vibrant social world and its easy rhythms in creamy black and white with smooth long takes, bringing an almost tactile quality to Cleo's personal odyssey, punctuated with chapter titles marking the time until her appointment at the hospital. Corinne Marchand's Cleo enters as a spoiled adolescent, but introspective internal monologues and brief encounters with strangers etch a portrait of a woman hiding her fears under a façade of flightiness, only discarding the mask when she firmly embraces life in the face of possible death. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An epiphany with the deceptive lightness of a featherCleo is like most of us, caught up in the minutia of our everyday lives, frequently obsessed over the most trivial things. But all that changes with medical testing for cancer ... What follows won't satisfy those looking for a complex plot, or overt drama. It's the simplicity of the next 90 minutes, of seeing the world as if for the first time, of experiencing life with fresh eyes, that makes this such a wonderful film. At first Cleo is busily killing time, do her best ... Read More Rating: - Freaks of the UnderworldAs Cleo stumbles through the streets of Paris, in shock over her prognosis, the ordinary sights and sounds of the streets attain a spectral radiance, in fact a disconnect from reality, that make her seem like the poor girl in CARNIVAL OF SOULS (played by the incomparable Candace Hilligoss). The two films, CLEO and CARNIVAL, were made right around the same time, 1962, otherwise it would be safe to say that Agnes Varda must have studied Herk Harvey's horror masterpiece for strategies on how to portray ... Read More Rating: - "Nakedness is simplicity itself, like the sun..."Cleo (Corinne Marchand) is a pop star whose life is filled with superficialities. Life does not seem so blissful from 5 to 7 though, because in this time she waits on the results of a medical test to determine if she has cancer or not. With such a troubling situation on her hands, she finds it hard to concentrate on music or her egotistic lover (José Luis de Villalonga). Instead, she takes the time into her own hands and experiences the world in a way she hasn't for a long time. Director ... Read More Rating:  - Deep thoughts with a light touchThis is film that handles heavy topics with a very light touch. Agnes Varda, known for some heavy hitting documentary style films, deftly manages to contrast social stratas and emotional life by contrasting two different styles of filmmaking. The "everyday Joe" of Paris is contrasted with the beautiful elite young pop star, "Cleo." Cleo's life is depicted in high style scenes and situations; her self-focused, vaccuous thoughts in voice over, as well as those around her who are less priviledged. ... Read More Rating: - Cleo 5 to 7With "Cléo," photojournalist-turned-filmmaker Varda (wife of Jacques Demy) composes an effervescent visual homage to the City of Lights and the modern harried woman, beautifully capturing the faces of everyday Parisians as well as the giddiness of big city life. Over the course of one day, we watch Cléo (real-life model/pop-singer Marchand) negotiate the hustle of modern-day Paris streets and boutiques, collaborate with songwriters (one of whom, Michel Legrand, is the film's composer), visit with friends and ... Read More |
