Compagnie Commerciale Française Cinématographique (CCFC) | Release Date: September 4, 1962 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Universal acclaim based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
20
Mixed:
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Negative:
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Agnes Varda's exquisite New Wave masterpiece, about an hour and a half in the life of a gorgeous, possibly dying chanteuse. [30 Apr 2010, p.31]
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Throughout, the writer-director, Agnes Varda, sustains an unsentimental yet subjective tone that is almost unique in the history of movies.
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Varda's touching day-in-the-life of a Parisian pop star. [12 Jan 2007, p.C3]
88
Philadelphia InquirerHenry T. Murdock
The film...has an amazing quality of life, animation and hope. [07 Dec 1962, p. 27]
80
The Observer (UK)Staff (Not Credited)
It's a beguiling, slightly indulgent work, featuring a film-within-a-film starring Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. [28 Nov 2010, p.34]
75
Boston GlobeMarjory Adams
Cleo from 5 to 7, a sort of combination between realism and avant-garde imagination, is the kind of film that young people, learning to appreciate foreign-made pictures, will find stimulating. [15 Feb 1963, p.8]
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If French film makers would consider the story they have to tell as paramount to the technique of telling it, I'm sure they would interest a wider audience than they do now. [05 Sep 1962, p.37]
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St. Louis Post-DispatchMyles Standish
The film is interesting, although it does become a bit monotonous in its endless shots of the seedy side of Paris. [23 Nov 1962, p.48]