Cleo from 5 to 7

Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)

[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055852/]

The Gist:

Cleo from 5 to 7 is about a woman named Cleo (obviously) who is waiting for medical results that will tell her whether or not she has cancer. The whole film is imbued with a sense of doom, since it opens with a tarot card reading that makes predictions both to the characters death and to the "talkative man" she meets near the latter half of the film. She wonders around Paris in a sort of dejected, petulant daze, but when she does actually meet the man the film shifts into a gentle poetry. The film becomes more about how the people we meet and our interactions with them shape our lives and give our lives meaning. It's beautiful New Wave stuff.