Cleo de 5 a 7
Cleo de 5 a 7
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Summary
Cleo de 5 a 7 is a classic of French New Wave cinema, depicting 90 minutes in the life of its heroine Cleo, as well as presenting aspects of daily life in early 1960s Paris. Ungar skilfully examines the film's historical importance as well as its technical complexity and visual beauty.
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Cleo de 5 a 7 by Steven Ungar
Cléo de 5 à 7, Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, ninety minutes in the life of Cléo, 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 never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du cinéma group of critics-turned- film-makers. Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic contexts, tracing Varda's early career as a student of art history and as a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Cléo'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 Cléo's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a visual document of its historical moment.
STEVEN UNGAR is Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, USA and the author of a number of books, including Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture (co-author with Dudley Andrew), Harvard UP 2005.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844571765 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844571769 |
| Title | Cleo de 5 a 7 |
| Author | Steven Ungar |
| Series | Bfi Film Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2008-07-18 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |