Varda takes eighth for finding formal adventure in ordinary encounters. Start with Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), following a singer through Paris as she waits for medical test results. Watch how walking, looking and waiting reshape our attention to one person.
Her movement between fiction and documentary gives her our edge over Wilder’s tightly scripted craft. Miyazaki wins for the scale of his imagined worlds. Rank curiosity about everyday lives and freedom of form above spectacle, and Varda can rise sharply.
Source: BFI.
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