Daguerréotypes

Director: Agnès Varda, Agnès Varda, Agnès Varda, Agnès Varda, Agnès Varda, Agnès Varda, Agnès Varda

1975 / 78min / DCP

Unable to stray far from home while she was nursing her newborn son, Varda decided she would make a movie from her doorstep, interviewing shopkeepers, neighbors, and random passers-by on the street outside her Paris apartment, Rue Daguerre—named for Louis Daguerre, pioneer of early photography. Going no further than the electric cable she ran out of the apartment that was powering her equipment, by merely prompting the people on the block to speak of their lives, loves, and dreams, Varda finds a microcosm of the whole of Paris—and perhaps the wider world.