When we think about the French new wave, an art film movement in the late 50' to early 1960, we consider the male directors like Jean Luc Goddard, Francois Truffaut, or Alain Resnais but in 1962 Agnes Varda join with the movement through her film Cleo 5 to 7 and made a new height. though she already prefigured in 1955 in her film La pointe courte a strong as well as beautiful debut feature. Cleo 5 to 7, her second film a more bold and beautiful.

At the first part of this movie Cleo, the protagonist looks towards the mirror and said those lines, ‘’Wait, pretty butterfly. Ugliness is a kind of death. As long as I'm beautiful, I'm even more alive than the others.'' Why did she tell so?

Cleo 5 to 7 is a real-time movie portraiting 2hrs of Cleo's life and her journey or wandering at the street of Paris as she waiting for her biopsy report. So here is the question that comes out again, why does she tell those lines? Is it because she is scared by the tarot card reader whom she visit early where she pulls out a death card. rightly so. But the more significant question is where is she tells this? Looking at the mirror. the mirror which shows the reflection but not the actual. Cleo is a person who really concerned about the reflection of society upon her. So here mirror is used as a tool to show how she let the external perspective dominate her own image of her actual self. Though she can not be blamed completely, as we all are somewhere affected by external expectations women are more conditioned by society, by their parents to fit into the social norms, bombarded by the cultural message. This illness or the anxiety causes for thinking about her illness fractures this ‘image’(the restaurant scene, where she meets her maid)  which she believes in.

So she suppresses her identity crisis by taking solace in beauty seeing her roaming in a hat shop where have mirrors everywhere. Despite the summer season, she buys a black fur hat ‘crowning’ her head like a storm warning.

Coming back home she occupies her bed like a throne, meets her lover, more of like a ceremony than passion. Cleo is one of that unlucky people who never was accepted as actually they are rather pampered her as they want her to be, and more miserable is she finds nothing problematic in it. there is a scene her lyricist and pianist come to her with a new song which is extremely sad depicts the life of a woman wasted without the love of a man. 'Naked in cold of winter…………. Alone ugly, ashen without you'. after this song, she realizes that she is this person, and there is a point of change in her character. She removes her wig and places it on the mirror. this is the point where she decards her false identity, she came out at the streets of Paris but the ‘mirror’ still follows her. Then Cleo comes to meet her friend who models nude for sculptors. Cleo wonders how she can do that without fear of being embarrassed what if they found flaws in her.(what if people judge you if you express your true self) .But her friend replies “My body makes me happy, not proud”. When takes that in her heart we see a mirror shatter, it is the last mirror we see.

In the final sequence of the film see Cleo enjoys her new freedom at the park, there she meets an army guy finds a true connection with him. she opens with him, tells him the real name of her, Florence. It's the first time her heart talks to a heart, they go to the hospital together, where the doctor confirms that she does have cancer which she has feared all along.

Although it's bad, scary news she is not scared anymore. In her last line, she says, “I think my fear is gone. I think I'm happy.”