Shot in Paris during the height of the Sixties, Varda’s second film Cléo from 5 to 7 tells the story of Cléo, a pop singer who passes her time drifting through different locations and conversations while awaiting the results of a vital and potentially life-changing medical examination.
A forerunner to the French New Wave, Cléo from 5 to 7 was a truly trailblazing exercise in film narrative, shot in a documentary-like fashion to capture reality as true-to-life as cinematically possible. The film also has a famous ‘silent film-within-a-film’ segment, which all film connoisseurs will love, as it contains cameos by the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
“As innovative and influential as any New Wave film”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
