{"product_id":"9781838719364","title":"Cléo de 5 a 7","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCléo de 5 a 7\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Steven Ungar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCléo de 5 à 7 \u003c\/i\u003e(Cléo from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cléo, 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-Fifth Republic Paris, was a major point of reference for the French New Wave despite the fact that Varda never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du cinéma group of critics-turned- film-makers. Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic contexts, tracing Varda's early career as a student of art history and as a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Cléo'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 Cléo's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a visual document of its historical moment. Steven Ungar's foreword to this new edition looks back upon Varda's film-making career and considers her contributions as a female auteur and in the context of the French New Wave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781838719364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"British Film Institute","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40713042755790,"sku":"9781838719364","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_3f814587-c8e6-4286-8bbc-894b51bc9a2d.jpg?v=1640839586","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781838719364","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}