Cork French Film Festival 2012
Opening Film: Cléo from 5 to 7*
*Presented by director Agnès Varda.
From a deceptively simple narrative – pop singer Cléo (Corinne Marchand) whiles away two hours in the cafés, shops, streets and parks of Paris as she awaits the results of recent medical tests.
19:00 Sun 06 March, 2011 @ The Gate Cinema
1962
35mm
French (English Subtitles)
Directed by Agnès Varda
Starring Antoine Bourseiller, Corinne Marchand, Dominique Davray
Varda creates both a vivid documentary-style portrait of a superbly vibrant city and an engrossing, profoundly resonant study of an attractive, successful young woman whose stylish façade barely conceals a preoccupation with private doubts, desires and anxieties.
Despite Varda’s seductively light touch – which allows for both a lovely Legrand song and a parodic short starring Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina – her bold control of pace and mood also ensures that the film is, in its own subtle way, deeply moving.