Inception In Paris

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A city is a creation of modernity and a place where social contrast and cultural collisions take place. Paris, one of the most iconic modern city, is the main setting for both Cleo from 5 to 7(Dir. Varda, 1961) and Inception(Dir. Nolan, 2010). Agnes Varda’s Paris is very different from Christopher Nolan’s Paris in visualization, audio and themes, and the distinctions in representations are caused by the differences in genre, time, objectives and gender of the directors.
Cleo from 5 to 7 is a melodrama centers on the 2 hours when Cleo, a famous pop singer, decides to retrieve some test result from the hospital. On the other hand, Inception is a Sci-Fi action film about a dream extractor, Cobb, pulls his last job of implant ideas through dreams