{"product_id":"cleo-de-5-a-7","title":"Cléo de 5 a 7","description":"\u003ci\u003eCléo de 5 à 7 \u003c\/i\u003e(Cléo from 5 to 7), Agnes Varda's classic 1962 work depicts, in near real-time, 90 minutes in the life of Cléo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition. The film, whose visual beauty matches its evocation of early-Fifth Republic Paris, was a major point of reference for the French New Wave despite the fact that Varda never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du cinéma group of critics-turned- film-makers. Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic contexts, tracing Varda's early career as a student of art history and as a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Cléo's health concerns and ambitions to become a pop singer make her more or less oblivious. His study is the first to set a reading of Cléo's formal and technical complexity alongside an analysis of its status as a visual document of its historical moment. Steven Ungar's foreword to this new edition looks back upon Varda's film-making career and considers her contributions as a female auteur and in the context of the French New Wave.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54219634344280,"sku":"9781838719364","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781838719364_ae39c223-eff9-4422-8b13-08de53dca2a9.jpg?v=1764683130","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cleo-de-5-a-7","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}