Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. Varda uses a unique (for the time) structure of following a woman in "real" time to explore the fear of death.
Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. A key work of the French New Wave, the film is moving, lyrical, and mysterious.
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