Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Agnès Varda

Writer:

Agnès Varda (writer)

Release Date:

1962 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

This movie shows us Cléo, a French singer, who is afraid of getting the result of of a test from her doctor...

Plot Keywords:

Singer | Cancer | Fortune Teller | Paris | Stomach

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Corinne Marchand	...	Florence, 'Cléo Victoire'
Antoine Bourseiller	...	Antoine
Dominique Davray	...	Angèle
Dorothée Blank	...	Dorothée
Michel Legrand	...	Bob, the Pianist
José Luis de Villalonga	...	The Lover
Loye Payen	...	Irma, la cartomancienne
Renée Duchateau
Lucienne Marchand	...	La conductrice du taxi
Serge Korber	...	Plumitif (the lyricist)
Robert Postec	...	Le docteur Valineau
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jean-Claude Brialy	...	L'infirmier (uncredited)
Raymond Cauchetier	...	Raoul, le projectionniste (uncredited)
Jean Champion	...	Le patron du café (uncredited)
Eddie Constantine	...	L'arroseur (uncredited)
Georges de Beauregard	...	Le conducteur du corbillard et de l'ambulance (uncredited)
Danièle Delorme	...	La vendeuse de fleurs (uncredited)
Fernande Engler	...	La fille au café (uncredited)
Sami Frey	...	Le croque-mort (uncredited)
Jean-Luc Godard	...	L'homme aux lunettes noires / Actor in silent film (uncredited)
Anna Karina	...	Anna, la jeune fille blonde / Actress in silent film (uncredited)
Yves Robert	...	Le vendeur de mouchoirs (uncredited)
Alan Scott	...	Le marin (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Taste	...	Le garçon de café (uncredited)

Directed by
Agnès Varda

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Agnès Varda		writer

Produced by
Georges de Beauregard	....	producer
Carlo Ponti	....	producer

Original Music by
Michel Legrand

Cinematography by
Paul Bonis
Alain Levent
Jean Rabier

Film Editing by
Pascale Laverrière
Janine Verneau		(as Jeanne Verneau)

Production Design by
Jean-François Adam
Bernard Evein
Edith Tertza

Art Direction by
Bernard Evein

Costume Design by
Alyette Samazeuilh

Makeup Department
Aïda Carange	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Jean-François Adam	....	production manager
Bruna Drigo	....	production manager
Claude Laporte	....	production manager trainee
Edith Tertza	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Marin Karmitz	....	assistant director
Bernard Toublanc-Michel	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Julien Coutelier	....	sound
Jean Labussière	....	sound
Jacques Maumont	....	sound re-recording mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Liliane de Kermadec	....	still photographer

Other crew
Aurore Chabrol	....	script girl (as Aurore Paquiss)
Rose Sokol	....	subtitler: English

Production Companies

• Ciné Tamaris
• Rome Paris Films

Distributors

• Altomedia. Co. Ltd. (Korea) (DVD)
• Altomedia. Co. Ltd. (Korea) (VHS)
• Ciné-Tamaris/Paramount Home Video (2006) (France) (DVD)
• Compagnie Commerciale Française Cinématographique (CCFC) (1961) (France) (theatrical)
• Criterion Collection, The (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner (1967) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Zenith International Films (1962) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)

Other Companies

• Gevaert  film stock
• Laboratoires G. I. C.  laboratory services
• S.I.M.O.  sound re-recording

Also Known As:

Cléo de cinq à sept
Cleo dalle 5 alle 7 (Italy)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (USA)
Cleo de 5 a 7 (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
Cléo från 5 till 7 (Sweden) [sv]
Cléo viidestä seitsemään (Finland) [fi]
Cleo - Mittwoch zwischen 5 und 7 (West Germany) [de]
Cleo fra 5 til 7 (Denmark) [da]
Cleo od piatej do siódmej (Poland) [pl]
Duas Horas da Vida de Uma Mulher (Portugal) [pt]
Dyo ores sti zoi mias gynaikas (Greece) [el]
I Cleo apo tis 5 os tis 7 (Greece) (festival title) [el]

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.19 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:TV-14 (cable rating) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Spain:13 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Arrêt de bus Verlaine, près de la Place d'Italie, Paris 13, Paris, France

Company:

Ciné Tamaris

Trivia:

The film actually covers Cléo from 5:00 to 6:30. The final chapter for the film ends at 6:30.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: The dolly track used in the final shot can be seen as the actors walk away from the hospital.

Quotes:

Florence, 'Cléo Victoire': I'm afraid of everything - birds, storms, lifts, needles - and now, this great fear of death...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Sans toit ni loi (1985)

Why I love French Film

This film is a perfect example of why I love French film. In a word, realism. In many words, the desire to capture life's most important, daring, fanciful, yet haphazard moments with the faith that by doing so you are illustrating a timeless notion. Cleo from 5 to 7 plucks a single string from a singer's life and by pulling at it, illustrates the fabric of the beautiful and unique, but predetermined world that it is woven into. What illustrates this best is the third scene of the movie when the heroine flits about a local shop browsing hats. The camera shows her shopping but also captures many reflections that expose the larger world around her. The window pane showcases soldiers marching by, foreshadowing the war in Algiers. The mirrors take snapshots of Cleo with different head-dresses all be-speaking a future she won't choose. In the background, her maid sits disapprovingly. Small details like these, that are often neglected in other movies, are the backbone of this work of art. Cleo from 5 to 7 is a movie about much more than two hours in the lead character's life. It is about the character's whole life as illustrated by two hours. Like Joyce's Uylsses, it finds parallels between the struggles of a day with the struggles of a life.