Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) Directed by Agnès Varda
One of the films in what is hands down the best Criterion Picks series Hulu have done so far: Super Cuts, an entire playlist devoted to fashionable hairstyles of the silver screen, featuring Louise Brooks’ helmet hair in Pandora’s Box, the Johnny Bravo pompadours of Leningrad Cowboys Go America, the ’60s mod hair of Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, and of course the gravity-defying electroshock fuzz of Eraserhead’s Henry.
Agnès Varda’s near real-time portrait of a self-absorbed singer awaiting hospital results that may change her life is less about hair than it is about vanity, but Corinne Marchand is still a stylish centrepiece in Varda’s petri dish Paris. The film also features great cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina, who play silent movie versions of themselves in a cute film-within-a-film vignette that plays on their relationship together, and it may make you curse the day they ever broke up.