Directed by Agnès Varda • 1962 • France
Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. 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.
In this 2005 documentary, director Agnès Varda reunites some of the actors and crew to discuss the making of CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7.
In this short film from 2005, Pierre-William Glenn, shooting from the back of a motorcycle, retraces the steps Cléo takes through Paris in CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7.
In this clip from the 1993 French television special “Madonna, c’est Madonna,” hosted by Christophe Deschavannes, director Agnès Varda and the singer discuss CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7.
