Varda’s hybrid verité/fiction masterpiece follows two hours in the life of Cléo, a successful pop singer, as she awaits the outcome of a test for cancer. Anxiously wandering the streets of Paris – its cafes, crowds, cinemas, and street theatres – Cléo gains a new sense of perspective on her sheltered, artificial life and gradually ceases playing the role her admirers expect of her. Varda once described her film as ‘the portrait of a woman painted onto a documentary about Paris’.