Daguerreotypes (1976)

Name: Daguerreotypes (1976)
Genre: Documentary
Released: December 12, 2011
Duration: 80 min

2011

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: December 12, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: A classic documentary from Agnes Varda, Daguerreotypes is a wonderfully intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers on a short stretch of the Rue Daguerre, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years. Varda has described the film as an archeological study for future sociologists. (The Cinema Guild)

Director: Agnès Varda

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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Noel Murray

Dec 15, 2011

It isn't just the fashions that date this documentary, or the subjects' shared experiences of the European turmoil of the mid-20th-century. It's also their work itself, which is like a relic of some ancient civilization. Read full review

Jesse Cataldo

Dec 8, 2011

Like many of Agnès Varda's similarly themed explorations, the results are more than they initially seem, casual anthropology with a strongly humanist bent, resulting in a film that's fueled more by compassion than curiosity. Read full review

Melissa Anderson

Dec 7, 2011

In a career that began nearly 60 years ago, Agnès Varda has shown an extraordinary gift for capturing the theatricality of the mundane, particularly in her documentaries. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Dec 11, 2022

This documentary is of a special kind that fascinates me personally. Agnès Varda makes it look so simple and makes you believe it is, but the whole value of her work is the honesty of her observation.

Daguerréotypes is a fascinating look at professions that even in that period of 1975This documentary is of a special kind that fascinates me personally. Agnès Varda makes it look so simple and makes you believe it is, but the whole value of her work is the honesty of her observation.

Daguerréotypes is a fascinating look at professions that even in that period of 1975 seemed like something that had been around for quite some time and above all that carry traditions of both the area and the people in those jobs. It's just an amazing documentary.… Expand

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