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Over two anxious hours in Paris, a young pop singer wanders the city awaiting the results of a medical test that could change everything, her vanity and fears giving way to a new way of seeing. Agnès Varda's luminous New Wave portrait, told nearly in real time.
Why it’s here
Agnes Varda's Paris-set French New Wave film and a central work of modern French cinema.
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Genre
- Drama
- Mood
- thoughtful · dark
- Entry
- some context
- Best for
- shorter watch · film history
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