Emily Csuy of Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast is back behind the mic to kick off the Trylon’s Agnès Varda series with CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962)!

Florence, who sings and performs under the stage name Cléo (short for “Cléopatra”), is reeling after she’s diagnosed with cancer. The movie picks up during a tarot reading that spells her imminent doom, and the rest of the film tracks the following two hours of her life, moving in roughly real time as she floats aimlessly through neighborhoods of Paris, looking for distraction and consolation from friends and strangers alike.

With Emily, we circle around CLÉO’s ideas of self-perception, feminine expression through feminist art, the many kinds of performance expected of women, how Varda translates feelings of desperation and doubt to the screen, and much more.

Listen to Emily’s Hey Arnold! Podcast, Stoop Kidz!, wherever you get podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stoop-kidz-a-hey-arnold-podcast/id1553292788

Links:

Buy tickets to “AGNÈS VARDA: DIEU DU CINÉMA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/agnes-varda-dieu-du-cinema/

- Buy tickets to “ISHIRÔ HONDA’S GODZILLA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/ishiro-hondas-godzilla/

- Buy tickets to “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing song: “Sans toi” by Michel Legrande and Agnès Varda from CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 172: CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962) with Emily Csuy

1:32 - The episode actually starts

5:03 - How Varda creates Cléo’s conflicted perspective and self-image

21:27 - “Sans toi,” Michel Legrande, and Beach House

28:52 - Setting up the third act

41:07 - Who Cléo is by the end of the movie

46:15 - Antoine and the big picture

57:08 - The Junk Drawer (swallowing frogs, good good cats, tarot)