Director: Agnès Varda
With: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Michel Legrand
Language: French, Hebrew subtitles
Cléo from 5 to 7
Agnès Varda’s French New Wave classic. Varda beautifully captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits crucial medical test results. 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 (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
The film is screened as part of our tribute to Michel Legrand. See also: Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand