Cléo de 5 à 7 / Steven Ungar.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute,
2008.
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| Series: | BFI film classics
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| Format: | Book |
| Summary: | "Cleo de 5 a 7, Agnes Varda's classic work of 1962 depicts, in near real time, ninety minutes in the life of Cleo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition. The film, whose visual beauty matches its evocation of early Fourth Republic Paris, was a major point of reference for the French New Wave despite the fact that Varda, the only major female French director of the period, never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du Cinema group of critics-turned-filmmakers." "Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic context, tracing Varda's early career as a student of art history and a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Cleo's health concerns and ambitions to become a pop singer make her more or less oblivious. His study is the first to set a reading of Cleo's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a document of a specific historical moment."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 119 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm. |
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| Notes: | Bib#: 1333037 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-117). |
| Series: | BFI film classics
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| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 1844571769 (pbk.) 9781844571765 (pbk.) 9781844572304 (pbk.) 1844572307 (pbk.) 1844571769 9781844571765 |
| Bib#: | 1333037 |
