Cleo From 5 to 7 and The Portrait of a Lady

Originally Written Summer 2019. The following is part one my coverage of Film at Lincoln Center’s 50th Mixtape: Free Double Features series. The common thread between Agnes Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) and Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady (1996) is time and freedom. Cleo (Corinne Marchand), feeling trapped by the chanteuse … Continue reading Cleo From 5 to 7 and The Portrait of a Lady