
Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.... (Full plot summary below)
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Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.
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| NewsBlazePrairie MillerThe 'mysteries of daily exchange' resonate within, including windows with breads artfully shaped by hand, conjured incidental street magic, and pen and papers instead of cash registers. And where the word consumerism has amazingly, never been uttered. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyObserving traditional crafts and trades with loving fascination, Varda empathetically evokes their paradoxes-the depth of practical knowledge, the lack of variety in experience. |
| Film Journal InternationalMaria GarciaDaguerreotypes, one of Agnès Varda's early yet accomplished feature-length documentaries, presages the themes and visual style she would explore in her subsequent work. |
| Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVarda has shown an extraordinary gift for capturing the theatricality of the mundane, particularly in her documentaries. |