SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“Cléo from 5 to 7 plays today as startlingly modern. Released in 1962, it seems as innovative and influential as any New Wave film.”
90 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Agnès Varda. In French with English subtitles. DCP.
Note: This screening is part of a series, “The Talk of the Town,” inspired by the upcoming exhibit “Peggy Bacon: Biting, never Bitter.” Each film in this series concerns a female artist navigating their ambitions in a big city. Films in “The Talk of the Town” series will screen at 3 pm on Saturdays throughout June.
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.