River City Stories collaborator Amandine Pope joins Wally for a screening of Agnès Varda's French New Wave masterpiece Cleo from 5 to 7. Along the way, they talk about the politics and culture of France, the use of psychic mediums in movies, and — of course — mortality.
00:03:13 An introduction to Agnès Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7
00:07:09 Wally's fascination with psychics
00:10:52 Amandine's brush with the occult
00:15:34 Quantum physics and the outer reaches of what we know
00:23:23 Cleo from 5 to 7 as a feminist film
00:26:11 The vagaries of language and translation
00:31:37 Teaching French to Americans
00:37:35 French culture and politics
00:49:12 Amandine's favorite French films
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