Les Films d’Agnès V. Retrospectives 2018

Cléo de 5 à 7

Agnès Varda

FranceItaly

1961 Comédie dramatique 1h30

Beautiful singer Cléo is waiting for the results of medical tests. From superstition to fear, from the rue de Rivoli to the Café de Dôme, from coquetry to anxiety, from her home to the Parc Montsouris, Cléo lives 90 very curious minutes. Her lover, a musician, a friend and then a soldier open her eyes to the world.

With : Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blank, Michel Legrand, Jose Luis de Villalonga, Serge Korber
Screenplay : Agnès Varda
Image : Jean Rabier
Decors : Bernard Evein, Jean-François Adam
Music : Michel Legrand
Editing : Janine Verneau

Production : Rome Paris films, Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti
Distribution: Ciné-Tamaris

Considered as the appointed producer of the New Wave, Georges de Beauregard offered Agnès Varda an opportunity to produce a low-budget film. Varda ventured into this “concept” film: “it was a question of taking up the challenge of a narrative limited by time and geography”. The metamorphosis of a character is all the more spectacular as it is made up of the unison of the clocks and mirrors of the city. The mental space of Cléo, who is obsessed with her own self-image, encounters a reality close to us: the effect is fearsome. In the core of this narrative is a mini-film made in one day: “The light on that particular day and the overall good humour remain a memory for me which symbolises the New Wave as we lived it, imagination in power and friendship in action”.