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Cléo from 5 to 7 (Criterion Collection)

 

  Written and Directed by Agnès Varda

France-Italy 1960 / Drama / Black & White / Color / 89 min / Monaural / 1.66:1 Widescreen Anamorphic / NTSC / In French with Optional English Subtitles

Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanc, Michel Legrand.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

 
       

 Bonus Features:

- New, restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Agnès Varda
- Remembrances (2005), a documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Varda and actors Corinne Marchand and Antoine Bourseiller
- Gallery of paintings by Hans Baldung Grien, whose work inspired the character of Cléo
- Excerpt from a 1993 French television program featuring Madonna and Varda talking about the film
- Cléo's Real Path Through Paris (2005), a short film retracing, on a motorcycle, Cléo's steps through Paris
- Les fiancés du pont Macdonald (1961), a short film directed by Varda, featuring some of her new wave colleagues, with Varda explaining why the film was featured in Cléo
- L’opéra Mouffe (1958), an early short by Varda, with a score by Georges Delerue
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation