Cléo from 5 to 7

Cléo from 5 to 7

Release Date

1961

Director

  • Agnès Varda

Cast

  • Corinne Marchand
  • Antoine Bourseiller
  • Jean-Luc Godard
  • Anna Karina

A selfish and beautiful pop singer wanders through 1960s Paris while awaiting the results of a biopsy.

Legendary filmmaker 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 and grapples with a possible cancer diagnosis. 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 (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and the late Anna Karina.