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Model Shop (1968)
Director: Jacques Demy
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Demy's only - and underrated - American film may lack the fairytale charm of his finest French work, but the bitter-sweet delicacy of tone and acute feeling for place are at once familiar. Aimée's Lola, abandoned by her lover Michel, has now turned up in LA where, older and sadder, she works in a seedy photographer's shop, and brings brief respite to a disenchanted young drifter (Lockwood) with whom she has a one night stand. Unlike Antonioni with Zabriskie Point, Demy never even tries to deal with the malaise afflicting American youth in the '60s, but gives us yet another (relatively plotless) tale of transient happiness and love lost. It's also one of the great movies about LA, shown for once as a ramshackle, rootless sprawl, where movement on the freeways (accompanied by the sounds of West Coast band Spirit) is seemingly endless.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Jacques Demy
Producer: Jacques Demy
Cast: Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay, Carol Cole, Severn Darden, Tom Fielding, Neil Elliot, Jeanne Sorel full cast
Duration: 92 mins
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