Agnès Varda made several films during the Nouvelle Vague that were about women. She herself works in an atypical profession in the male-dominated film industry. She continues to challenge male-dominated cinema and creates films and characters that also challenge the traditional role of women. Any preconceived ideas about what a woman should be are nowhere to be seen in Varda's films. Feminism manifests itself in many of Varda's films. It shows the journey of different women in a male-dominated society. Cléo in Cléo from 5 to 7 retraces her journey trapped by the male gaze, imprisoned. However, Mona in Vagabond chooses to break free from it, the camera and its gaze do not constrain her. These films seem to be heavily concerned with the roles women play in French society. Varda is able to present these roles with a frank yet complex honesty. Its female characters were unconventional for the time, especially when compared to other films directed by men such as Truffaut and Godard. It doesn't just place them in predictable roles like mother, caretaker, housekeeper, etc. Instead, he places them in the foreground of his films and makes them protagonists. It gives them real problems and conflicts to contend with. She manages to use cinema as a means to look in depth at the female psyche and personal choices. In Cléo from 5 to 7, Cléo is the cliché of the woman. She is tall, blonde and beautiful. As a beautiful female singer, she is subject to the male gaze even more than most women. You can't see it internally. Instead, she just looks at herself through a mirror, trying to see herself as a man would see her. Varda shows this journey of Cléo, the object of male desire, transforming into Florence, her true self, stripped of… middle of paper… alive. There is so much diversity between these films, but each of them has characters that break the stereotypical mold of femininity. Cléo breaks with the cliché of femininity by becoming an active woman in search of her gaze and her true self, while Mona breaks with the cliché of femininity by being dirty, defying all the social conventions attributed to a respectable young woman. Varda empowers women and gives them unconventional “feminine roles” rather than conventional ones such as maid, mother, or prostitute. Each character must overcome or ignore their own social norm to find their femininity, their true inner self. Varda's films are true reflections of society, but they also feature people who don't quite fit into that real society. However, what is interesting about his approach is that it doesn't diminish the reality of those characters.