Cleo from 5 to 7 - Flashcards
Who directed Cleo from 5 to 7? Agnès Varda
When was Cleo from 5 to 7 released? 1962
Who plays Cleo? Corinne Marchand
When is the film set? Paris, 1960s (real time) (on-location)
What was Varda originally before becoming An artistic photographer
a filmmaker?
What was Varda’s first film? What was its ‘La Pointe Courte’ (1955)
style? -> documentary blended with fiction,
Nouvelle Vague style, photographic
style/artistic realism
How is Varda a feminist filmmaker? She focuses on female protagonists
Cleo passes the Bechdel test
(conversations with Angele and Dorothee
not involving a man)
Original approach as second wave
feminism hadn’t been invented yet
(consciously an auteur but unconsciously
a feminist filmmaker)
Where was the phrase auteur first used? Francois Truffaut in Cahiers du Cinema
(1954) - French New Wave
journal/magazine
Who developed the auteur theory? Andrew Sarris (in 1962 essay ‘Notes on the
auteur theory’)
What period was the French New Wave? 1958-1962
Who was associated with the origins of the Alexandre Astruc in his article “The Birth of
French New Wave movement? a New Avant-Garde: The Camera Stylo”
(1948)
-> wanted to move cinema into a more
literary art form rather than formulaic,
genre-bound, money motivated movies
What are some features of the French New - Breaking 4th wall
Wave style?
- Jump cuts
- Editing is not invisible – makes
audience conscious they are
watching a movie
Who directed Cleo from 5 to 7? Agnès Varda
When was Cleo from 5 to 7 released? 1962
Who plays Cleo? Corinne Marchand
When is the film set? Paris, 1960s (real time) (on-location)
What was Varda originally before becoming An artistic photographer
a filmmaker?
What was Varda’s first film? What was its ‘La Pointe Courte’ (1955)
style? -> documentary blended with fiction,
Nouvelle Vague style, photographic
style/artistic realism
How is Varda a feminist filmmaker? She focuses on female protagonists
Cleo passes the Bechdel test
(conversations with Angele and Dorothee
not involving a man)
Original approach as second wave
feminism hadn’t been invented yet
(consciously an auteur but unconsciously
a feminist filmmaker)
Where was the phrase auteur first used? Francois Truffaut in Cahiers du Cinema
(1954) - French New Wave
journal/magazine
Who developed the auteur theory? Andrew Sarris (in 1962 essay ‘Notes on the
auteur theory’)
What period was the French New Wave? 1958-1962
Who was associated with the origins of the Alexandre Astruc in his article “The Birth of
French New Wave movement? a New Avant-Garde: The Camera Stylo”
(1948)
-> wanted to move cinema into a more
literary art form rather than formulaic,
genre-bound, money motivated movies
What are some features of the French New - Breaking 4th wall
Wave style?
- Jump cuts
- Editing is not invisible – makes
audience conscious they are
watching a movie
