Cleo from 5 to 7 ( Cléo de 5 à 7 ) ( Cléo de cinq à sept (Cleo from Five to Seven) )

Cleo from 5 to 7 (DVD) (*)

$25.99

Original Title: Cléo de 5 à 7
Alternate Title: Cléo de cinq à sept (Cleo from Five to Seven)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Agnès Varda

Written By:
Agnès Varda

Actors:
Corinne Marchand ..... Florence, 'Cléo Victoire'
Antoine Bourseiller ..... Antoine
Dominique Davray ..... Angèle
Dorothée Blank ..... Dorothée
Michel Legrand ..... Bob, the Pianist
José Luis de Villalonga ..... The Lover
Loye Payen ..... Irma, la cartomancienne
Renée Duchateau ..... La conductrice du taxi
Lucienne Marchand ..... Plumitif (the lyricist)
Serge Korber ..... Le docteur Valineau
Robert Postec
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Arthur Brunet

Synopsis:

An hour and a half (despite the title) of the life of a singer who learns she is merely being put on display. She visits a fortune teller who predicts stomach cancer (although after she has left), which is what she is afraid of what she might be dying. During this period, she meets with her boyfriend in a room full of cats and swings, then her composers in the same place. After deciding to work against the capriciousness with which the composers pigeonhole her, she puts on a black dress, takes off her wig, and tries to see things from a different perspective, learning much from her friend Dorothée, who poses nude for sculptors, and a passing soldier named Antoine.

Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that Cleo, a pop singer, awaits the results of her tests for cancer. Director Agnes Varda stages the film in "real" rather than subjective time, its various episodes divided into chapters, using significant Tarot cards. During the allotted time, Cleo visits her friends, tries to sing her worries away, spends money, and cries.

While waiting for the result of a biopsy, the French singer Cléo, aka Florence, visits a fortune teller; drinks coffee and buys a new hat with her housekeeper; is visited by her lover and her composers; visits her model friend; and meets and has a brief affair with a military man. Finally, she meets her doctor who gives her his diagnosis.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 11 November, 2010.

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