Daguerrotype

2016

2h 11m

Drama

Fantasy

Horror

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55%

20 Reviews

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54%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

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Worth seeing for the cinematography alone, this film displays the quirkiness of the director's previous work, which may act as an on/off switch to many viewers: either you enjoy that kid of thing, or... But the acting is good, visuals beautiful, and the story, such as it is (I will not risk a spoiler here), is even thought-provoking given half a chance. Not for everyone, certainly, but a cut above most of what I've seen lately, and a film that will resonate in my head for quite a while, I feel sure.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Director

Tahar Rahim

Jean

Constance Rousseau

Marie

Olivier Gourmet

Stéphane

Mathieu Amalric

Vincent

Malik Zidi

Thomas

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Jaime N. Christley

Village Voice

What a sad film, devouring even deservedly hopeful youth.

Mar 20, 2018

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

4:3

In the photography-centred world of Daguerrotype, surfaces constantly overpower the depths-it is a film about the ephemerality of representation transcending the very materiality of the things it seeks to represent.

Dec 15, 2017

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

AV Club

An essential ingredient of Kurosawa's crepuscular style seems to have been lost in translation: his dream logic.

Rated: C+

Nov 1, 2017

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

The best thing about the movie is Stéphane’s basement studio...the worst thing is pretty much everything else: the subplot about rapacious and predatory development of the suburbs, which is handled without much impact or real curiosity...

Jan 12, 2023

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Once again Kurosawa has produced a strong and evocative journey to an uncomfortable place.

Rated: 8/10

Sep 12, 2021

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

A beautiful film, draped in the heaviest of curtains and mossy paths, a French countryside Rebecca of muddy boots and shadowy basement dark-rooms

Jul 6, 2021

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Synopsis

An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Screenwriter: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Production Co: Bitters End, arte France Cinéma
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 7, 2017
Runtime: 2h 11m

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