DIRECTOR: Agnès Varda
PRODUCERS: Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti
PRODUCTION CO: Ciné Tamaris
SCREENPLAY: Agnès Varda
EDITOR: Janine Verneau
MUSIC: Michel Legrand
WITH: Corinne Marchand (Florence / Cléo Victoire), José Luis de Vilallonga (José), Loye Payen (Irma), Dominique Davray (Angèle), Serge Korber (Maurice), Dorothée Blanck (Dorothée)

FESTIVALS: Cannes

REVIEWS

“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.”

– Criterion

“Vain, childish and selfish at the start, Cleo’s journey through Paris is also a journey of self-discovery — she transforms in the course of the film from a passive woman on whom others’ expectations are projected into an active participant in her own life. Cleo’s metamorphosis is reflected in her movements through Paris; the film’s first half is dominated by a shopping excursion in which Cleo is surrounded by mirrors, and in the second half, she literally sheds her false image in order to actively observe the city, eventually striking up a friendship with a soldier on leave.”

– Harvard Film Archive

“Offers an irreplaceable time capsule of Paris, and fans of Michel Legrand won’t want to miss the extended sequence in which he visits the heroine and rehearses with her… Underrated when it came out and unjustly neglected since, it’s not only the major French New Wave film made by a woman, but a key work of that exciting period—moving, lyrical, and mysterious.”

– Jonathan Rosenbaum 

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Wellington     
Monday, 17 March, 6.15pm

Wellington     
Monday, 17 March, 8.30pm

​Hamilton     
Monday, 31 March, 6.30pm

Queenstown
Tuesday, 06 May, 8.00pm

Canterbury
Monday, 19 May, 7.00pm

​Palmerston North
​Wednesday, 04 June, 6.00pm​

​Bigger Picture Ōamaru
​Thursday, 19 June, 7.00pm

Auckland     
Monday, 07 July, 6.15pm

Timaru     
Tuesday, 15 July, 6.30pm

Nelson     
Wednesday, 17 September, 6.00pm

Dunedin     
Wednesday, 08 October, 7.30pm

Whanganui  
Monday, 20 October, 7.00pm​

Tauranga  
Wednesday, 29 October, 6.00pm
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co-operation with the Institut Français and the Embassy of France