Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer 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 and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
If Cléo from 5 to 7 hit you the right way, here are Hollywood films that share its DNA. Same emotional weight, same kind of stories, same kind of payoff.
Both films sit with figuring out who you are and longing. The world both films live in revolves around men and women navigating expectations and caught between worlds. Same energy: melancholic, haunting, slow burn, and dreamlike.
What ties these together is longing, figuring out who you are, and grief. They share the same lens on men and women navigating expectations. Both move the same way too, melancholic, warm, slow burn, and dreamlike.
Both films sit with figuring out who you are and longing. They share the same lens on men and women navigating expectations. Both move the same way too, melancholic, haunting, slow burn, and methodical.
What ties these together is figuring out who you are and longing. The feel is the same: warm, melancholic, and slow burn.
Both films sit with longing, grief, and feeling powerless. The world both films live in revolves around old ways vs. new world. Both move the same way too, melancholic, haunting, slow burn, and methodical.
Like Cléo from 5 to 7, this one is rooted in grief, longing, and figuring out who you are. The world both films live in revolves around caught between worlds and old ways vs. new world. Same energy: melancholic, haunting, slow burn, and dreamlike.
Like Cléo from 5 to 7, this one is rooted in grief and figuring out who you are. Both circle the same ground: men and women navigating expectations. The feel is the same: melancholic, warm, slow burn, and methodical.
Both films sit with feeling powerless and grief. The feel is the same: warm, melancholic, and slow burn.
