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Gender and Space in Cl�o de 5 � 7

2002; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1386/sfci.2.2.83

1758-9517

Jill Forbes,

Cinema and Media Studies

AbstractThis article reviews the canonical feminist readings of Cleo de 5 a 7 as a film which presents an empowered female subject. The film is as much about Paris as about a woman; more precisely, it is about the conflation of the two, of Paris as woman, as the ‘whore’ of literary and artistic tradition. There is a documentary, ‘ethnographic’ thrust to the film, which records places, but which also constructs an itinerary. The article explores Cleo's itinerary, showing how she is mapped onto the topos of Paris as whore. Her trajectory makes her less obviously the empowered subject, and more ambiguously mapped out as object.