Book
Cléo de 5 à 7
BFI film classics, BFI, Second edition
2020
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Abstract
Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cléo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition. The film, whose visual beauty matches its evocation of early-Fifth Republic Paris, was a major point of reference for the French New Wave despite the fact that Varda never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du cinéma group of critics-turned- film-makers. Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic contexts, tracing Varda's early career as a student of art history and as a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Cléo's health concerns and ambitions to become a pop singer make her more or less oblivious. His study is the first to set a reading of Cléo's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a visual document of its historical moment. Steven Ungar's foreword to this new edition looks back upon Varda's film-making career and considers her contributions as a female auteur and in the context of the French New Wave.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cléo de 5 à 7
- Creators
- Steven Ungar - University of Iowa, Cinematic Arts
- Resource Type
- Book
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- BFI; London
- Series
- BFI film classics
- ISBN
- 1838719369; 9781838719364
- eISBN
- 1838719342; 9781838719340
- Number of pages
- 119 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2020
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts; French and Italian
- Record Identifier
- 9983949692602771
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