We recently watched Agnes Varda's brilliant and loving documentary on her own neighborhood, "Daguerotypes", about the people of the Rue Daguerre in 1975.
There was a wonderful North African shopkeeper from Djerba, in Tunisia, if I recall correctly.
I also remember reading, perhaps here, that so many North African shopkeepers in Paris came from the same town that some people called their litttle shops "__________ shops".
Can anyone fill in the blank?
Rue Daguerre, Agnes Varda, and North African shopkeepers
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Yes, they call them Djerbas, for that very reason. There is one right around the corner from the hotel I almost always stay at in Paris. Since I have been to Tunisia I have gotten into conversations with the owner about his homeland - he is the one who gave me that factoid. I don't know if the average French person calls them that, as opposed to alimentaires, but the Tunisian owners do.
If you have not seen "The Beaches of Agnès," of which a large part takes place in rue Daguerre, you absolutely should.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqPkMiHda0k
I saw her "Vagabond" back in the 1980's when she was a darling of the Village Voice film critic Andrew Sarris.
I remember that film influencing my fashion choices that year and noticed that the film influenced many designers who copied that vagabond--Duran Duran look.
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And yet you did not die in a ditch.
3I saw most of her films and met her at a festival of her films at Harvard. She's very short and has a strange two colored hairdo.
She signed my program.
Yes, her weird hair is a trademark, just like Sonia Rykiel.
No, I didn't die in a ditch, but I have certainly awakened in several.
'I may be in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars.'--OSCAR WILDE
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Keith is staying home. He can't miss the opening of school year.
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Bon Voyage, my friend, send me a card!
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