The French Film Guides Remarkable even by New Wave standards, "Cleo de 5 a 7" is a moving and self-reflexive film from one of the period"s very few French female directors. As Valerie Orpen explains, Agnes Varda"s film about a woman awaiting the results of her cancer test is aesthetically innovative and politically aware, as well as an excellent document of the Parisian street life of 1961.