Cleo from 5 to 7

Radio Times“Writer/director Agnès Varda constantly introduces the unexpected...” Beneath her cool exterior, Corinne Marchand as Cleo manages to convey a range of emotions. Watch out for a film within the film, featuring Jean-Luc Godard and other New Wave luminaries...

Variety“Varda easily picks up the threads and keeps alive interest in the girl...” Corinne Marchand is well utilized as the sick girl while others just lend silhouettes to her wanderings, except for Antoine Bourseiller's knowing portrayal of the soldier...

Time Out film“Experimental and free-wheeling...” Quietly touching and profound, it epitomises the youthful delight Varda always shows for the tools at her disposal and her sensitive and easeful way of expressing the sways and shifts of life, love and desire...

Channel4 Film“Varda made her reputation with this film...” She wanders around Paris where every trivial incident takes on a new significance for her. In fact, everything is seen in such new wave brilliance by Rabier's camera that the anxiety of the protagonist gets somewhat lost...

The Telegraph“Classic...” Race to see Agnes Varda’s exquisite 1962 New Wave masterpiece, about an hour and a half in the life of a gorgeous, possibly dying chanteuse (Corinne Marchand)...

The Times“Sex and the City rewritten by Simone de Beauvoir...” We enter a funny, feminine world of female taxi drivers and nude models, as Cléo flounces in an ostrich-feather trimmed peignoir at home and declares that today she will wear black...

Guardian“A brilliant, pioneering film...” The Parisian streetscapes are beautiful and thrilling, and the tarot scene at the beginning, combined with overheard fragments of anxious city lives, give this something of TS Eliot...

Empire“One of the Nouvelle Vague's boldest achievements...” Exposing cinéma vérité to be as superficial as Marchand’s chic friends, Varda delights in jump-cutting a swathe through narrative convention and invites Jean-Luc Godard to be her film-within-the-film accomplice. A brilliant work of cine-liberati

The Independent“Not yet reviewed”

Total Film “Not yet reviewed”