Cléo from 5 to 7

1962 · 90 min · FR · NR · 7.7 (783 votes)

Dir. Agnès Varda · Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck, Michel Legrand, José Luis de Vilallonga · Music Michel Legrand

“The whole world... has made an appointment with...”

Drama

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, 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.

VIBE

A chic, melancholic, and deeply contemplative slow-burn, this film immerses you in a real-time, existential journey. Its French New Wave style, marked by black-and-white cinéma vérité, evokes a profound sense of identity and mortality amidst the vibrant, yet isolating, urban experience. It's an introspective, art house meditation.

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