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You can watch Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) for free on Kanopy.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. 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 and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

A shimmering, anxious stroll through the streets of 1960s Paris unfolds in breathtaking real-time. As the sun moves across the city, a singer's mounting dread transforms a casual afternoon into a profound meditation on existence.

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