Cleo de 5 a 7

by Ungar, Steven

• ISBN13: 9781844571765
• ISBN10: 1844571769
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: British Film Institute

Summary

Clo de 5 7 , Agnes Varda's classic work of 1962 depicts, in near real time, ninety minutes in the life of Clo, 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, the only major female French director of the period, never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du Cinma group of critics turned filmmakers. Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic context, tracing Varda's early career as a student of art history and a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Clo'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 Clo 's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a document of a specific historical moment.

Author Biography

Steven Ungar is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 6
Sense of Time, Sense of Place	p. 7
Between photography and film	p. 11
Absolute beginner?	p. 18
The pregnant gaze	p. 26
A film about time and space	p. 33
By the clock and on the map	p. 38
Painting Fear Paris	p. 87
How many Cleos?	p. 100
Notes	p. 109
Credits	p. 118
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