The last film by Yasujiro Ozu was also his final masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man’s dignifed resignation to life’s shifting currents and society’s modernization.
Unfolding in almost real time, Cléo de 5 à 7 chronicles two hours in the life of a self-absorbed pop singer as she waits to find out whether or not she has cancer.
« J’aime Cléo de minuit à midi ... »
“This is the story of a man marked by an image from his childhood.”
opening of La jetée
“Transcending mere reflections of personal anxiety, however, Kafka’s expressionism is more properly ‘sociological’, focusing on the confounding structures of post-bureaucratic life.
“The help becomes more impertinent each day.”
Julio Mayordomo, steward
Jack Andrus: Hello, Lew... I said hello, Lew.
I am a force of the Past.
My love lies only in tradition.
I come from the ruins, the churches
the altarpieces, the villages
abandoned in the Apennines or foothills
of the Alps where my brothers once lived.
I wander like a madman down the Tuscolana,