Daguerréotypes (1975)
July 14, 1975Release Date
Daguerréotypes (1975)
July 14, 1975Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Agnès Varda
Narrator / Writer / Director
Robert François
Mystag the Magician
Lucien Bossy
Self
Leance Debrossian
Self
Marcelle Debrossian
Self
Jean Guillard
Self
Thibaud Jean
Self
Boukraa Mustapha
Self
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 14, 1975
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 20m
Filming LocationsParis, France
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This Movie Is About.
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Daguerréotypes is a 1976 French documentary by Agnès Varda. It features vignettes of life in Rue Daguerre - a street in Paris, where the filmmaker lived.
Varda was caring for her two-year-old son at the time of filming and could not spend long periods away from her home. Because of this, the entire film is confined within a 90 metres (300 ft) radius of Varda's home - the length of the electric cables for her equipment.
Most of those profiled come from places outside Paris, or even France. Over the course of the film, every subject is asked the same three questions: "Where did you come from?", "When did you get here?", "Why did you come?".
The film's name is a complex pun: The street, Rue Daguerre, is named after Louis Daguerre, inventor of the Daguerreotypes method of photographic printing. During a voiceover in the film, Varda explains that the business owners and occupants of Rue Daguerre are her 'types', in reference to typologies both as the photographic style and practices of social classification that Varda was critical of. At various points the subjects assume formal, static pose as if in mid-19th century photo portraiture.