{"product_id":"cleo-de-5-a-7-by-steven-ungar-9781838719364","title":"Cléo de 5 a 7","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCléo de 5 à 7\u003c\/em\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-filmmakers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUngar 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis 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 filmmaking career and considers her contributions as a female auteur and in the context of the French New Wave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462714114284,"sku":"9781838719364","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781838719364-cl-o-de-5-a-7.jpg?v=1775021819","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/cleo-de-5-a-7-by-steven-ungar-9781838719364","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}