In Agnès Varda’s French New Wave classic CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7, young singer Florence, known as Cléo, waits anxiously for medical test results that may confirm she has cancer. Over the course of two hours in Paris, her fear, vanity and loneliness give way to unexpected encounters, self-reflection and a more profound awareness of life.

Rialto Recommends CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 is luminous, elegant and quietly radical, a real-time portrait of a woman suspended between glamour and dread. Agnès Varda turns a walk through Paris into something deeply human, capturing the fragility of identity, the fear of mortality and the strange beauty of ordinary moments. A defining work of the French New Wave.