by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that Cleo, a pop singer, awaits the results of her tests for cancer. Director Agnes Varda stages the film in "real" rather than subjective time, its various episodes divided into chapters, using significant Tarot cards. During the allotted time, Cleo visits her friends, tries to sing her worries away, spends money, and cries.
characteristics
- High Artistic Quality
- Only Human
- Stress [worry]
- Slice-of-life
- Soldier
- Incurable-disease
- Fear
- Terminal-illness
- Health
- Songwriting
- Songwriter
- Medical
- France
- Life
- Cancer
