Daguerreotypes

Agnès Varda (Narrator) guides viewers through intimate portraits of Rue Daguerre's shopkeepers and residents, capturing life on the picturesque Parisian street where she lived for over 50 years. The film consists of vignettes featuring recurring questions asked to each subject: "Where did you come from?", "When did you get here?", and "Why did you come?" Varda critiques classification systems as she presents her subjects in a style reminiscent of 19th-century portrait photography, where the line between documentary and typology blurs.