"I tried to make a subjective documentary about a young woman, but also about the people around her, about the Dome, Parc Montsouris, the way an eye fully conditioned by a sentiment as violent as the feat of death might see them. The time frame and geography are realistic because I wanted to show the subjectivity of mental time and the intermittent importance of place."
*Agnes Varda comments on the story behind Cleo from 5 to 7 through comparing it to the documentary form.
Le Monde, April 12, 1962
Douchet, Jean, Cedric Anger, and Robert Bononno. French New Wave. Zzdap Publishing, 1999. pg. 219
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Like Kino-Eye, the French New Wave succeeded at moving the audience through the collapse of the distance between narrative and the documentary. Cleo from 5 to 7 is brilliant at that it documented the streets of Paris through very documentary conventions, and simultaneous embedded the sensibility of the character through a very discriminating selection of images.
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