À quoi s’attendre
Cléo from 5 to 7 turns waiting into movement. A pop singer crosses Paris while expecting medical results, initially seeing herself through mirrors, clothes, songs, and other people’s reactions. Agnès Varda keeps the film close to passing time, but the journey is not simply a countdown. As Cléo walks, listens, and encounters lives outside her carefully managed image, the city becomes both documentary environment and emotional instrument. The film belongs to the French New Wave while following its own rhythm—playful, observant, politically alert, and centred on a woman learning to look outward without disappearing from her own story.
Comment aborder le film
The title suggests exact real time, but the film’s clock is expressive rather than mathematically perfect. Use the chapter markers as a gentle guide and notice how Cléo’s relationship to mirrors and public attention changes. The tonal shifts—from tarot to comedy, music, street observation, and quiet conversation—are part of the film’s movement toward a less performed way of being present.
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At first Paris seems arranged to reflect Cléo back to herself. Slowly, it becomes a place with its own faces, work, noise, and vulnerability. I like how the film makes attention feel ethical: looking outward does not erase her fear, but it changes its size.
— Momo
Générique et versions
- Distribution
- Corinne Marchand · Antoine Bourseiller · Dominique Davray
- Scénario
- Agnès Varda
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