"Cleo From 5-7"
1962
Dir. Agnes Varda
starring: Corinne Marchand
a vain woman waiting for medical results, “spoiled but never loved". what a heartbreaking line, the way she said it.
life begins in tears, her day trying on hats to see what fits, identity. meeting her ironic music collaborators, her friend modeling nude for sculptors, riding around in a car with them signaling turns with their arms.
then the man at the park, who knows interesting things and is interested by her, the humanity that warms between them, animates. how it does that, human connection when we need it most, how it catalyzes us into a world of health, medical diagnosis, mortal flesh be damned.
