Varda has lived and worked on the rue Daguerre in Paris since the 1950s, but it wasn’t until 1974, when she was at home with her two-year-old son, that she turned her inquisitive eye on her neighbors and began working on this documentary about the street and its inhabitants. As in La Pointe Courte, the physical location is inextricably linked to its denizens, and their relationship with the space and the creation of a community drives the film. Tied together by a magician’s street performance, Daguerréotypes follows its mix of shopkeepers and artists as they move through their small street, the world in microcosm.