Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype Coming to VOD
Jonathan Barkan
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Coming to VOD on November 7th is Daguerrotype, a classic ghost story from J-horror mastermind Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Creepy). The story follows a young man who becomes the assistant to a famous photographer. Together, the two create life-size daguerrotypes of the photographer’s daughter. As romance blossoms between the young man and the daughter, tensions rise to razor sharp levels.
Kurosawa’s Pulse isn’t just one of my favorite J-horror films, it’s one of my favorite horror movies ever, full stop. If his name is attached to a movie, it’s a sure bet that I’ll give it a watch.
Written and directed by Kurosawa, Daguerrotype stars Tahar Rahim, Olivier Gourmet, and Constance Rousseau.
Daguerrotype will be hitting major platforms including iTunes, Sony, Google Play, Amazon, Microsoft, Vudu, Comcast, Charter, Cox, Vimeo, and various other cable operators.
Synopsis:
Jean (Tahar Rahim), a young Parisian with few skills and even fewer prospects, seems an unlikely candidate for assistant to famed photographer Stéphane (Olivier Gourmet), an obsessive perfectionist living in isolation since his wife’s unexpected death. Yet he soon finds himself in his new employer’s vast, decaying mansion, helping to create life-sized daguerrotypes so vivid they seem almost to contain some portion of their subjects’ souls.
Their model is most often Stéphane’s daughter and muse, Marie (Constance Rousseau), and as she and Jean fall in love they realize they must hatch a plot to leave Stéphane’s haunted world forever. But is there something malevolent within the massive daguerrotypes that will prevent their escape?
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