Why Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7 deserves to be a classic
BBCWhy Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7 deserves to be a classic Succession Varda Agnès Varda received more votes than any other director in BBC Culture’s poll of the greatest films made by women. Succession Varda Rather than being the godmother of the French New Wave, argued film critic Roger Ebert, Varda was ‘its very soul’ – with Cléo even now being ‘startlingly modern’ The film follows Cléo, a pop singer with some modest fame, as she tries to distract herself while waiting for her scheduled call to the doctor. Succession Varda Labelled a cornerstone of the French New Wave, Cléo also featured Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina Her walk leads to the film’s most playful interlude, brilliantly tucked in. Alamy Varda’s debut feature film La Pointe Courte has been hailed as a forerunner to the French New Wave Cléo is finally getting its due as a film that deserves to stand beside Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and Godard’s Breathless as New Wave classics.
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