Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962): Curzon Soho, 6pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the Curzon 90 season. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Agnes
Varda's 1961 New Wave feature—recounting two hours in the life of a
French pop singer (Corinne Marchand) while she waits to learn from her
doctor whether she's terminally ill—is arguably her best work, rivaled
only by herVagabond (1985) and The Gleaners and I (2000).
Beautifully shot and realized, this film offers an irreplaceable time
capsule of Paris, and fans of Michel Legrand won't want to miss the
extended sequence in which he visits the heroine and rehearses with her.
The film's approximations of real time are exactly that—the total
running time is 90 minutes—but innovative and thrilling nonetheless.
Underrated when it came out and unjustly neglected since, it's not only
the major French New Wave film made by a woman, but a key work of that
exciting period—moving, lyrical, and mysterious.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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