Kiyoshi KUROSAWA 黒沢清
Daguerreotype
ダゲレオタイプの女
Nippon Cinema ª
Jean works as an assistant to the daguerreotype photographer Stéphane in Paris. When Marie, Stéphane’s daughter, wants to escape her oppressive environment with Jean’s help, ghosts of the past come back to haunt both father and daughter. In his first production shot outside of Japan, NIPPON HONOR AWARD 2016 recipient Kiyoshi KUROSAWA pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe and Edogawa Rampo with a morbid film poem.
ダゲレオタイプの女
Dagereotaipu no onna
Japan, France, Belgium 2016
131 minutes
Production
Les Productions Balthazar
World sales
Celluloid Dreams
Cast
Tahar Rahim, Constance Rousseau, Olivier Gourmet, Malik Zidi, Mathieu Amalric
About Kiyoshi KUROSAWA
黒沢清
Kiyoshi KUROSAWA, born in Kobe in 1955, began his career as an assistant director for veterans such as Shinji SOMAI. His international breakthrough came with CURE (1997 / NC ‘16). He won the Prix Un Certain Regard twice at the Cannes Film Festival: in 2008 for TOKYO SONATA (NC ‘16) and in 2015 for JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (NC ‘16). He also taught for 20 years at Tokyo University of the Arts in Yokohama. He received the NIPPON HONOR AWARD at the Nippon Connection Film Festival 2016.