Cléo from 5 to 7

Cléo from 5 to 7 follows a young singer in Paris who is waiting for the results of a medical test. Frightened that she may be seriously ill, she visits a fortune teller whose cards deepen her dread. Unable to settle at home, she drifts through the city, meeting her lover, a friend, a pianist and others, and eventually encounters a soldier about to leave for Algeria. Over roughly ninety minutes of real time, her day moves from superstition and anxiety toward a new awareness of the world around her.

Agnès Varda directed and wrote the film, her first feature, made between Rome Paris Films and Ciné-Tamaris and produced by Carlo Ponti and Georges de Beauregard. Corinne Marchand plays Cléo, with Antoine Bourseiller as the soldier, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck, José Luis de Vilallonga and Michel Legrand, who composed the score, among the credited cast of twenty-seven. It was followed by Happiness in 1965.

Released in 1962, the film runs 90 minutes and blends drama with music. It holds a critics' rating of 8.6/10 from 53 reviews, higher than its audience scores of 7.8/10 on IMDb and 7.7/10 on TMDB, a gap suggesting stronger admiration among critics than among general viewers, though both remain solidly positive.