Cleo From 5 To 7 stars Corinne Marchand as a pop singer who spends two hours (90 minutes of screen time) waiting to find out if she has cancer. It’s a tricky premise, with flashes of experimentation as director Agnès Varda switches from black and white to color and plays with time, but Cleo is first and foremost a precise study of how major and minor moments in the life of a famous woman can reflect the mundanity and drama of every woman’s life.
Updated 07/29/2009
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