| Description |
1 online resource (119 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
BFI film classics |
| Contents |
Introduction. Sense of Time, Sense of Place -- Between photography and film -- Absolute beginner? -- The pregnant gaze -- A film about time and space -- By the clock and on the map -- Painting Fear Paris -- How many Cleos? |
| Summary |
Cleo de 5 a 7, Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, ninety minutes in the life of Cleo, 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 Cinema group of critics-turned-filmmakers. 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 Cleo'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 Cleo's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a visual document of its historical moment |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed April 06, 2016) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-117) |
| Notes |
In English |
| SUBJECT |
Cléo de 5 à 7 (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006069542
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Cléo de 5 à 7 (Motion picture) fast (OCoLC)fst01778992 |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- History.
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Motion pictures.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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