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cléo de 5 à 7 (1962), agnès varda

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Agnès Varda on why she felt pity for Cléo in "Cléo from 5 to 7" (1962): "Interviewer: Did you feel a lot of tenderness for this character? Varda: No, more like pity. I think it’s atrocious that someone should be so unprepared to contemplate death. Cléo is the type of person for whom the thought of death is so surprising that it completely undoes her. She’s led to question her entire existence, the musicians, Angèle, her lover, and even her profession as a singer. Cléo finds herself more and more abandoned until she meets the soldier, who’s really the prototypical harmless guy. This is no meeting of exceptional beings: it’s neither “we were fated to meet” nor “we were meant for each other.” Any guy she’d happened to meet at that moment would have helped her understand things bet ter. But it so happens that she meets a guy who is himself somewhat at sea. (I think a soldier is in a difficult position vis-à-vis certain problems). They both talk about love and he explains his view of things. The problem for Cléo is that she realizes that she’s never really given of herself, never felt entirely n@ked. That’s why the guy talks somewhat allegorically and her girlfriend works as a nude model. This idea of nakedness is portrayed visually by her friend posing, intellectually by the soldier, and physically by her experiences of the last hour. Illness undresses her because illness affects the body. There’s a moment at the hospital when Cléo gets to a point of trans parency and purity and this is what the film is all about. They’re both disarmed, vulnerable. People can begin to communicate when they’re in this state. Cléo discovers the way to another existence where other values obtain. Sometimes life opens up a way into another level of knowing. She realizes that there exist other things that she values." (Agnès Varda's interview with Pierre Uytterhoeven, 1962) P.S: On this day, 64 years ago, "Cléo from 5 to 7" (1962) was released in France.

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