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| Cleo From 5 To 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) |
Cleo, a deliciously frothy chanteuse, kills a couple of hours on the streets of Paris, banters with her maid, jams with fellow musicians and bickers with her older lover all the while waiting to receive test results for cancer. Romance blossoms at her most despairing moment and everything that seemed terminal suddenly begins to breathe again.
Blending her keen documentary shooting style with pop aesthetics and editing techniques that would come to define the French New Wave, Varda turns her portrait of a ditzy ingénue inside-out, revealing a more complex character than the pretty, pampered surfaces imply.
New print.
