Cléo from 5 to 7
- Corinne Marchand: Florence ( Cléo Victoire )
- Antoine Bourseiller: Antoine
- Dominique Davray: Angèle
- Dorothée Blanc: Dorothée
- Michel Legrand: Bob, the Pianist
- Loye Payen: Irma, the fortune teller
Cleo - Wednesday 5-7 is a French-Italian movie from 1961, he is one of the classics of the French Nouvelle Vague..
Plot: The film takes place in Paris on a Wednesday between about 5 and 7 clock in the afternoon. Cléo ( Corinne Marchand ), a young chanteuse, waiting anxiously for the diagnosis of your doctor. She believes to be suffering from cancer. The film begins with a visit to a fortune teller ( Loye Payen ), which predicts her an evil fate. ( 1) After visiting the fortune teller she meets with your confidant and counselor Angèle ( Dominique Davray ) for a coffee. ( 2) These attempts to allay their concerns. Angèle they then escorted into a hat shop where Cléo buys a hat on a whim. ( 3) Then she took a taxi home. ( 4) home recovering Cléo. Your lover will pass soon and that their composer Bob ( Michel Legrand ) and her songwriter Plumitif. ( 5) From them they can present themselves a few songs. After she sang a sad song, they do not take it anymore and flees the apartment in the city. She walks around a bit, to street artist sees and reacts distraught and then goes to a cafe where they turn on their own song and a liquor drink. (6 ) Then she brings her friend Dorothée ( Dorothée Blanc) from working, she works as a nude model for a sculptor, and they get in the car by Dorothee man a bag of movie roles from. Dorothée drives. (7) You go to the cinema, where Dorothee's husband works and watch part of a silent film comedy at. Dorothée then has an appointment. They share a taxi and Cléo continues up to a recommended Dorothée Park. There walks Cléo. In a small waterfall she is approached by a strange man Antoine (Antoine Bourseiller ). He engaged in conversation. She tells him of her suspicion and fear. He tells her that he is a soldier and in the evening the train takes to travel to Algeria. ( 8) mutually decide to Cleo's doctor to drive and then to the train station. You can take the tram. (9 ) Once arrived at the hospital the doctor does not seem to be there. Cléo want to look for him. You walk through the hospital garden and delight in nature. In this moment of happiness, the doctor pulls up and Cléo confirmed her suspicions. Reassured by all the events of the day, says Cléo despite the diagnosis at the end "I 'm happy. "
Background
The silent film comedy that featured in the film is 90 seconds long and includes the following actors and filmmakers: Anna Karina, Jean -Luc Godard, Émilienne Caille, Eddie Constantine, Sami Frey, Georges de Beauregard, Danièle Delorme, Yves Robert, Alan Scott and Jean -Claude Brialy.
Criticism
" A masterfully designed, sensitive study, partly observed sober, partly condensed poetic reality. A challenging film that treats its timeless topic seriously. "