Cléo de 5 à 7

Cleo, a young pop singer, wanders the streets of Paris while awaiting the results of a medical test that may indicate cancer. A lively mix of melodrama and cinéma vérité, the film features beautiful bleached-out photography, an excellent score by Michel Legrand and an unforgettable performance by Corinne Marchand as a narcissistic pop star gradually unveiling another self, no longer a woman as object but as subject.

This screening coincides with the launch of the new edition of The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks (eds. Peter Graham & Ginette Vincendeau, Bloomsbury Publishing/BFI, 2022), an essential anthology of writings by and about the critics and filmmakers of this revolutionary cinematic movement, which has had a radical impact on film practice and the way we think and write about film.

The screening will be introduced by Professor and co-editor Ginette Vincendeau (King’s College London) with a special focus on the book’s new chapter devoted to women filmmakers and women film critics, and more particularly Paule Delsol and Jacqueline Audry, two forgotten directors of the New Wave.

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