Daguerréotypes (1975)
DVDRip | Language: French | Subtitles: Spanish & English (.srt) | XviD 512x388 (4:3) | 65 min | 25.0 fps | 128 kbps | 652 Mb
Genre: Documentary / Essay Film | RS.com
A "magical" documentary on the small shopkeepers of the rue Daguerre in Paris, where the film-maker lived.
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DVDRip | Language: French | Subtitles: Spanish & English (.srt) | XviD 512x388 (4:3) | 65 min | 25.0 fps | 128 kbps | 652 Mb
Genre: Documentary / Essay Film | RS.com
A "magical" documentary on the small shopkeepers of the rue Daguerre in Paris, where the film-maker lived.
IMDB
Documental sobre los pequeños comerciantes de la calle Daguerre de París, donde vivía la directora.
1975, Agnès Varda filme la rue Daguerre, à Paris, dans le 14e arrondissement. Elle filme les commerçants, le boucher, la boulangère, l’épicier ou le coiffeur. Elle filme ses voisins. Elle transcende la vie paisible du Français moyen. Elle regarde ce que l’on voit tous les jours. Elle fait d’un documentaire, un hommage.
Agnès Varda (1928) is a filmmaker, photographer, journalist and active member of the French feminist movement. In 1954 she made her first feature film. La pointe courte combines documentary and feature film elements and is generally considered one of the precursors of the nouvelle vague. In her work she has always been torn between fiction and documentary film. She prefers to place her films in the context of the time when they were made. Daguerréotypes was shot in the Rue Daguerre in Paris, where Varda lived at the time. The film is a 'socio-archaeological' document about the local shopkeepers. Varda calls daguerréotypes "a neighbourhood album."
Whether she appears on the screen as she does in Gleaners, marveling at the age spots on her hands or pulls gently on the strings from behind the curtain, Varda is always there, posing questions and proposing answers. The questions are clearly more important to her than the answers, which is why her documentaries generally get filed under the heading Essay Film, alongside Chris Marker's. But the categories are always blurring in Varda's work: The documentaries are essay-like, the features are documentary-like.