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DAGUERROTYPE

by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

synopsis

A former fashion photographer, Stephane works obsessively in an old 19th century photography technique, said to have given eternal after-life to the souls of the people whose image it captured. Jean, a young man desperate for inspiration in his life, becomes Stephane’s assistant. He quickly feels captured himself, by Marie, Stephane’s only daughter and model. But after Marie takes a mysterious fall one evening, the difference between image and reality becomes much harder to decipher.

international title: Daguerrotype
original title: Le Secret de la chambre noire
working title: La Femme de la plaque argentique
country: France, Japan, Belgium
sales agent: Celluloid Dreams
year: 2016
genre: fiction
directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
film run: 131'
release date: FR 22/02/2017
screenplay: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
cast: Mathieu Amalric, Tahar Rahim, Olivier Gourmet, Constance Rousseau, Malik Zidi
cinematography by: Alexis Kavyrchine
film editing: Véronique Lange
art director: Pascale Consigny
music: Grégoire Hetzel
producer: Jérôme Dopffer, Michiko Yoshitake
co-producer: Rémi Burah, Olivier Père
production: Les Productions Balthazar, Frakas Productions, Film-In-Evolution, Bitters End [JP]
distributor: Condor Distribution, Lumière

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