Daguerrotype

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Daguerrotype

2016

2h 11m

Drama

Fantasy

Horror

Romance

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55%

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20 Reviews

54%

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

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

Jaime N. Christley

Village Voice

03/20/2018

What a sad film, devouring even deservedly hopeful youth.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

4:3

12/15/2017

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.

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

AV Club

11/01/2017

C+

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

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

01/12/2023

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...

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

09/12/2021

8/10

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

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

07/06/2021

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

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04/29/2018

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.

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