Cleo De 5 a 7

by Orpen, Valerie

• ISBN13: 9780252074585
• ISBN10: 0252074580
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Remarkable even by New Wave standards,Cleacute;o de 5 agrave; 7is a moving and self-reflexive film from one of the period's very few French female directors. As Valerie Orpen explains, Agnes Varda's film about a woman awaiting the results of her cancer test is aesthetically innovative and politically aware, as well as an excellent document of the Parisian street life of 1961.

Author Biography

Valerie Orpen is lecturer in French cinema at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Synopsis	p. ix
Map	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Production contexts	p. 3
Agnes Varda's career up to Cleo de 5 a 7, or the game of art and chance	p. 3
The genesis of Cleo de 5 a 7	p. 6
Agnes Varda and Cleo de 5 a 7 in the context of the New Wave	p. 11
Historical contexts: the backdrop of the Algerian war	p. 16
Structure, style and themes	p. 22
An unusual narrative structure: 13 chapters in 'real' time	p. 22
A 'subjective documentary': focalisation, character interiority and realism	p. 30
The Spoilt Child, the Maid-cum-Madam and the Chatterbox: characters in Cleo de 5 a 7	p. 38
Cleo de 5 a 7 as a filmic illustration of the Existentialist zeitgeist	p. 48
The loneliness of the flaneuse	p. 55
Paris: city of light and enlightenment	p. 63
Nature and death	p. 66
Nudity and costume, truth and masks	p. 70
Reception	p. 81
Box office and reviews	p. 81
A feminist film?	p. 87
Conclusion	p. 95
Film credits	p. 97
Chapter breakdown	p. 99
Filmography	p. 101
Selected bibliography	p. 103
Index	p. 107
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