Cléo from 5 to 7

"The whole world... has made an appointment with..."

1962 1h 30m FR

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7.7

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★7.7TMDB · 808

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Synopsis

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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.

“The whole world... has made an appointment with...”

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Cast

Corinne Marchand
Florence 'Cléo' Victoire
Antoine Bourseiller
Antoine
Dominique Davray
Angèle
Dorothée Blanck
Dorothée
Michel Legrand
Bob, the Pianist
José Luis de Vilallonga
José, Cléo's Lover
Loye Payen
Irma, the Fortune Teller
Renée Duchateau
The Seller of Hats

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Agnès Varda
Writers: Agnès Varda
Languages: French
Countries: France, Italy

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RUNTIME

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90 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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64 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: France, Italy.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Agnès Varda, shot by Jean Rabier. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Michel Legrand. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Pascale Laverrière shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Corinne Marchand and Antoine Bourseiller and Dominique Davray carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The whole world... has made an appointment with...".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Agnès Varda directs. Jean Rabier behind the camera. Michel Legrand scores. Pascale Laverrière cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France, Italy. Dialogue in French.

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Things worth knowing

190 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
264 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3International production across 2 countries: France, Italy.
4Directed by Agnès Varda, shot by Jean Rabier. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Michel Legrand. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Pascale Laverrière shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Corinne Marchand and Antoine Bourseiller and Dominique Davray carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "The whole world... has made an appointment with...".
9IMDB entry: tt0055852 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 8 themes, including "individual", "paris, france", "singer", "cancer".
11Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Jean Rabier
Original score: Michel Legrand
Editing: Pascale Laverrière
Costume design: Alyette Samazeuilh
Makeup / hair: Aïda Carange
Sound: Jacques Maumont
Runtime: 90 min · 1h 30m
Status: Released
Original language: FR
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

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talisencrw2016-04-16
★ 9/10
When I think of interesting filmmakers, the world over, whose movies are always a pleasure to watch, I thank God every day for Agnès Varda. I had her '4 Films by' Criterion boxed set, seemingly forever, left unwatched, and I don't really know why. Perhaps I felt her films wouldn't excite me enough, I don't know. I certainly enjoy foreign, and French, filmmaking enough. Maybe it was because she was female, I don't know. I hope not, but I'm simply being honest. Sometimes I'm apprehensive about starting to investigate the works of a director who's different from me: Female, non-English, non-Caucasian. I think it's difficult for me to start, because I'm afraid that I won't be able to fully emphasize with their sphere of reference, and thus won't be able to either appreciate or enjoy the filmic experience as much as I should. Once I start, and watch that first film I see of theirs, I'm fine. But until that point, it's truly a challenge. My university library had her two recent critically-acclaimed films, 'The Gleaners and I' and its sequel, on one DVD, and one of my favourite critics, Roger Ebert, had made a 'Great Movie' article about the original. So I gave that series a viewing, each film a separate night, and I fell in love with her as a person, and found that her films were not going to be a challenge for me at all. Thus I then turned to my previously-imposing, aforementioned boxed set, and went through it chronologically. This, the second film of the set, was extraordinary, basically a real-time cinematic exercise of a lady who is waiting for the results of a biopsy, and thus wondering if her quality of life is going to be seriously challenged or not. In it, as I've found in all of her films so far, there's an extraordinary visual flair, a great and natural storytelling facility present, and you can really tell that Varda both loves people and is glad to be alive, and it shows in everything she does. If you are in a similar boat, and are reluctant to investigate Varda's works, please do yourself a favour and don't hesitate any longer. Appreciate this extraordinary woman and her work while she is still alive. You will never be the same.
CinemaSerf2024-11-19
★ 7/10
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, there is not that much of interest going on. She meets her lover, José (José Luis de Vilallonga) an unsympathetic man well used to her behaviour and a soldier "Antoine" (Antoine Bourseiller) who is enthralled by her, but who is also facing deployment in the soon to be independent Algeria. I liked the style of the photography. It has an intimacy to it. The score from Michel Legrand (who also features playing piano) also adds a richness to this, but for the most part this is quite a curiously dry observational effort from Agnès Varda. If you can see it on a big screen then do try - on a smaller one it can struggle to retain the attention a little.