Drury's HEC Film Series: Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)

Professor. Jo Van Arkel (Professor of English) and Dr. Kevin Henderson (Professor of English, Chair of Languages and Literature) will host Agnès Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962). Post-film topics will include gender/identity, gender/wellness, Left Bank filmmakers v. The French New Wave, and the dawn of selfie and celebrity culture. This series is courtesy of Drury University's Humanities & Ethics Center (HEC).

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]

Starring: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray
Director: Agnès Varda
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy