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DVD: Cleo from 5 to 7, For retail & rental (Artificial Eye)

Mixing vérité with melodrama, Agnès Varda's classic follows comely chanteuse Cleo as she spends two hours (from five to seven) moping round town while awaiting the results of a medical test, until a meeting with a young soldier gives her a new perspective.

Providing a paean to 1960s Paris as much as a measure of vain, capricious Cleo, Varda enchants with her technical virtuosity, and offers a giggle with a film-within-a-film.

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