Cléo From 5 to 7 displays director Agnès Varda's interest in exploring the contradictions between fiction and documentary, between spectacle and narration. Played with grace by Corinne Marchand, the Cléo of Varda's 1962 film is a beautiful but somewhat shallow pop singer nervously waiting for the results of a cancer test. The film covers Cléo's life for two hours, from (predictably) 5 to 7pm, but Varda compresses this time down to 90 minutes.