Like any of Agnès Varda's movies, this one displays all her talents
as a filmmaker: a strong story to contrast the 'flighty' main
character; her playfulness with form, which later became a
common technique for Godard's and Truffaut's as well as other
French New Wave filmmakers; the same playfulness in casting,
as in having the great composer Michel Legrand as Cléo's pop- song writer, or the cameo appearance of Godard, all wonderful,
unpretentious and charming moments, inter-leaved within the
worries of the narcissistic main character, Cléo. The movie is less
existential than it is about life, and Varda has masterfully
juxtaposed a range of moments and emotions and situations to
create a true classic with Cléo's day from 5 to 7.
as a filmmaker: a strong story to contrast the 'flighty' main
character; her playfulness with form, which later became a
common technique for Godard's and Truffaut's as well as other
French New Wave filmmakers; the same playfulness in casting,
as in having the great composer Michel Legrand as Cléo's pop- song writer, or the cameo appearance of Godard, all wonderful,
unpretentious and charming moments, inter-leaved within the
worries of the narcissistic main character, Cléo. The movie is less
existential than it is about life, and Varda has masterfully
juxtaposed a range of moments and emotions and situations to
create a true classic with Cléo's day from 5 to 7.