Daguerreotypes
Directed by Agnes Varda
Written by Agnes Varda
1975/France
IMDb page
First viewing/Criterion Channel
They called me ‘The Ancestor of the New Wave’ when I was only 30. I had seen very few films, which, in a way, gave me both the naivety and the daring to do what I did. — Agnes Varda
Nobody does charming quite like Agnes Varda.
This documentary was made on Daguerre Street in Paris where Agnes Varda lived at the time she was tending to her young son. It focuses on short interviews with the many shop keepers on the street, some of which look to have been there for a hundred years. Varda is adept at affectionately catching all their quirks. The vignettes are interrupted by parts of a second-rate magicians act.
Anyone with nostalgia for the old traditional Paris will adore this! Others may merely love it.
