| Cléo de 5 a 7 Contributor(s): Ungar, Steven (Author) |
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ISBN: 1838719369 ISBN-13: 9781838719364 Publisher: British Film Institute OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 7.4" (0.40 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cl o de 5 7 (Cl o from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cl o, 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 cin ma 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 Cl o'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 Cl o's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a visual document of its historical moment. Steven Ungar's foreword to this new edition looks back upon Varda's film-making career and considers her contributions as a female auteur and in the context of the French New Wave. |