Daguerrotype (2016)
2/10
Boring but nice cinematography
11 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Confused mess but pretty pictures. I watched until the end, thinking there would be more substance to this story but alas, there wasn't. As I suspected, when earlier in the movie the daughter falls down the stairs she was indeed killed, but when the young assistant carried her to the car and drove her towards the hospital and she fell out the door, the director made it appear she was still alive. But in reality she had fallen over the river bank into the river, as was alluded to in a later scene. Anyone would know that he was either simply imagining her or she was a ghost. As to the stupid scene where the father (the 'artist') shoots himself and the assistant then grabs the gun and inexplicably murders an innocent real estate agent who had been trying to buy the property for months, it was ridiculous. As was the 'falling in love' of the assistant and the daughter - there was nowhere near enough interaction between the 2 for that to happen.

A real waste of a potentially haunting ghost story.
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