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Cléo from 5 to 7 (French: Cléo de 5 à 7) (1962) Slice of life New Wave, Tarot cards filmed in color, Magic, myth, and spells, Then two hours of real life, But in black and white. We follow spoiled Cleo, On real Paris streets. As she meets her friend and maid, Finds a nice new hat, Practices her notes and songs, Sees her kind boyfriend, Free-spirited Dorothee, Who imbues logic Into her superstitions. Director Varda Smartly adds great silent short, Famous cameos, Godard, Karina, Frey, more. Like Godard in short, Cleo removes sunglasses When she meets Antoine. She grows up, no longer scared Despite cancer's threat. With existentialist theme, From fate to power, From paranoid to content, Undramatic film That is not unexciting. Unpretentious art That unveils beauty slowly, Deftly winning us over. Choka (long poem) is an epic storytelling form of poetry from the Waka period, an unrhymed poem with the 5-7-5-7-5-7-5-7...7 syllable format (any odd number line length with alternating five and seven syllable lines that ends with an extra seven syllable line). #Choka #PoemReview

Cleo form 5 to 7, is a poignant tale of a young singer, who must face her own possible mortality before she is ready. The film starts with Cleo visiting a fortune teller's office, where we find that, Cleo who is waiting for the results of a doctor's test, will experience a major life change soon. Unknown to Cleo, the fortune teller speaks in an aside to the audience, and predicts that Cleo has cancer. This film which runs one and a half hours, and literally spans one and a half hours, is basically a journey that Cleo takes. It is in the moment that Cleo faces her deepest fears that she realizes she has no true friends. Scared of her possible test results, instead of spending the time with friends and family, she spends it wandering around Paris, and with a soldier on leave. Neither her companion, lover, friend, or producers, can understand what she is going through. Cleo may at first choose not to burden her friends with her problems, but the longer she tours Paris the more she realizes that a true friend would be there with her, she wouldn't have to worry about annoying them with her problems, and she would know that they would always have an open ear for her. It is as she walks around a park in Paris that she meets a young soldier on leave who will be going back to fight soon. To Cleo, although it may seem as simple as pouring her problems onto a man she will never have to see again, if she so desires; she is really unconsciously choosing this stranger over all the people in her life. She may subconsciously believe that the soldier know what it is like to be scared and alone, and may believe that he will best sympathize with her problems, since he too has felt fear, as opposed to her other friends, who basically live the golden life.

Cleo from 5 to 7 is probably Agnes Varda's most well known masterpiece. As all art movies its more about the visual style than the actual plot. The plot can be summed up as the story of a famous singer who realizes that she may die of cancer. She awaits her results with a mosey sense of gloom and dread. The movie is basically following her around from 5 o clock to 7 o clock with everything she does documented for the viewer. We see a strange relationship between Cleo and her servant. Her servant is strange in that she always tries to undermine Cleo as if she is jealous of her lifestyle. I found the servant to be a bit of a sadist enjoying the pain of Cleo under the guise of friendship. Cleo eventually runs into her lively and youthful friend and hangs out with her without telling her of her illness. They eventually split ways and Cleo is again left alone to cope with her tragic future. She eventually meets a young soldier whom she initially despises, but grows fond of as she realizes that he is not interested in getting in her pants. They connect on a human basis with conversations about life. Together they learn the truth about her disease, but the soldier eventually goes off to Algeria leaving Cleo alone again. All in all Cleo from 5 to 7 is an interesting window into human emotion and the need for human interaction.

The 1962 directed by Agnès Varda known as Cleo de 5 a 7 is a French film about a woman who's life seems to change because of a psychic's prediction. And she only goes to the psychic because of her health and she wants to know if she'll be all right. Throughout the movie she is depressed because her illness and doesn't know if its fatal. She believes that she has cancer and will soon die of this disease, so she walks around town just enjoying everything since she thinks it's almost the end for her. When she goes to the park she meets a soldier who is going to war the next day in Algeria and they start talking and kick it off pretty well. They go throughout town talking, well he did most of the talking, but at last they decide to visit the doctor to see if she is in fact ill or not. When they get there they find that the doctor isn't in, but decided to walk to his office anyway. The doctor appears in his car and tells Cleo that she will be fine that nothing is wrong with her, and from there she was happy and her and the soldier walk off together and the movie ends. The movie confronts several of the themes such as existentialism, including discussions of mortality, the idea of despair, and leading a meaningful life. The director did a great job with the film, putting the mood of the film the way Cleo felt throughout. Such as when she was feeling gloomy, the music was the same, and when she felt happy the same with the music. This movie was a great film to watch, which is why it won the Critics Award and nominated for the Palme d'Or.