-Agnès Varda
Watch the film again and discover the beauty of Paris, as well as the more subtle ones, and the lighter ones.
Dressed in a white satin robe, her lover came and kissed her promising to try to go out together on Friday; the lyricist-composer pretended to be a doctor to cheer her up; the maid naturally removed her girdle as she cried, thinking: she’s just a child and needs to be taken care of.
But her fear, of herself, of death, is not confronted, she is not respected, “Ugliness is a death, and as long as beauty remains, I live.”
She knew: I was just being spoiled, not being loved.
Changing into a black dress, taking off her wig, and walking up the street alone, the camera looks at all the people before this, while she is in sight, “I thought everyone was looking at me, I had only myself in my eyes and it was wearing me out.” Afterwards the camera also turns to the gestures, the eyes of the people, it is she who is watching the people.
A friend of Cleo’s works as a mannequin in a drawing room, and Cleo is naturally surprised by her candor. Her friend said, “My body makes me feel happy, not proud”.
Probably every woman, in the traditional gender and social perceptions, always stands in the perspective of being scrutinized and can’t help but be hard on herself. But why does it have to be good to be proud of yourself? If not true self-acceptance, the effort is nothing more than filling a bottomless hole.
Makes me wonder, am I also involuntarily judging myself with other people’s ideas?
She opens her heart for the first time to a stranger, a talkative soldier who is about to board the eight o’clock train to leave.
In honesty, she stopped fearing death and ask the result of hospital check ins and decided to enjoy her last moments together.
At this point, the film is coming to an end, and Cleo has completed its own transformation.
Varda is always relaxed, letting us soak in the atmosphere and say a complicated thing. She doesn’t preach or criticize, she just hits the spot and lets the characters achieve it on their own, lifting the weight with beauty.
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