Daguerrotype (2016) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Characters
Jean
(played by Tahar Rahim) — protagonist
Jean is a young Parisian who becomes Stéphane's new assistant and falls in love with Marie. Troubled by the prolonged photography sessions and Stéphane's destructive obsession, he works with Marie to...
Marie
(played by Constance Rousseau) — supporting
Marie is Stéphane's daughter and muse, living with him in isolation in a decaying house outside Paris. She must remain motionless for long periods in an old-fashioned blue dress while modeling for his...
Stéphane
(played by Olivier Gourmet) — supporting
Stéphane is a renowned fashion photographer who lives in seclusion with his daughter Marie. Haunted by his wife's unexpected death, he recreates her image through daily daguerreotypes, using Marie as...
Louis
(played by Jacques Collard) — supporting
Canonical Relationships
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Jean → Louis
(Professional Workplace Successor) — Jean takes on practical work connected with the photographic process when Louis's back pain prevents him from continuing it.
The plot says Jean helps with daily tasks after Louis, whose back hurts, is no longer able to work on the photographs.
Jean → Stéphane
(Professional Assistant And Employer) — Their working relationship shifts from Stéphane teaching Jean the photographic process to a morally strained association as Jean learns how Stéphane has treated Marie.
Jean arrives to interview for an assistant position, Stéphane hires him, and Jean helps with the photography and daily tasks. Jean later calls Stéphan...
Jean → Marie
(Romantic Lovers) — Their affection and shared desire for a different life connect Marie's wish to leave the mansion with Jean's effort to change their circumstances.
The character profile says Jean falls in love with Marie, and the plot describes them working together to find a way out of Stéphane's situation.
Stéphane → Marie
(Family Father And Daughter) — Stéphane's photographic obsession places Marie under pressure to pose for increasingly long periods, and his admission about the drug reveals a deeply harmful dimension to their relationship.
The character profile identifies Marie as Stéphane's daughter. The plot says she models for his daguerreotypes and that he admits he sometimes gave he...
Story Analysis
Jean's work in Stéphane's isolated household entangles him in an obsessive photographic practice, Marie's desire to leave, and an estate sale whose outcome remains unresolved.
Plot Progression
A New Assistant in the Mansion
— Jean arrives seeking work and is hired despite lacking professional experience. Stéphane teaches him the hazardous photographic process, while Marie's demanding poses and the greenhouse contamination...
A Life Beyond the Estate
— Marie considers leaving for a botanical garden job in Toulouse, while Jean promises to stay and help Stéphane. A representative's development proposal introduces the possibility of selling the estate,...
An Uncertain Way Out
— As concern about Marie grows, Jean and others discuss making Stéphane believe she died after a fall in the hope that he will sell. The account leaves Marie's fate uncertain and later depicts Stéphane...
The Cost of the Sale
— Jean negotiates over the estate and is offered a large commission in exchange for securing Stéphane's consent and the original property document. Stéphane continues his photographic sessions as the ac...
Consent Without Closure
— Jean discovers that Stéphane used a toxic muscle relaxant on his wife and sometimes on Marie, and condemns him. Stéphane appears ready to accept an offer and authorize Jean, but the final exchange end...
