Chloe from 5 to 7
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 12:00:30 CDT 2009
a bit of a stretch but this is a wonderful movie about a somewhat
pampered not very deep woman who learns a thing or two about herself
in the course of a day--a secular Oedpia story if you will. the shots
of Paris in the early 60s is an added treat.
Highly recommend
Agnes Varda, the lone woman in the French New Wave boys' club, made
her reputation with her second feature Cleo from 5 to 7, a 90-minute
drama set in real time exploring the internal turmoil of a flighty
young pop singer who awaits the results of a medical examination for
cancer. Leaving behind her elegant, almost antiseptic apartment for
the bustle of the Parisian streets, she weaves through crowds and
watches street performers while struggling with her fears and
self-recriminations, confronting her shortcomings and finding hope in
a chance meeting with a young soldier. Varda captures the vibrant
social world and its easy rhythms in creamy black and white with
smooth long takes, bringing an almost tactile quality to Cleo's
personal odyssey, punctuated with chapter titles marking the time
until her appointment at the hospital. Corinne Marchand's Cleo enters
as a spoiled adolescent, but introspective internal monologues and
brief encounters with strangers etch a portrait of a woman hiding her
fears under a façade of flightiness, only discarding the mask when she
firmly embraces life in the face of possible death.
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