Model Shop (Demy, 1969): Cine Lumiere, 6.30pm
This film, screening in tribute to the late, great Anouk Aimée, is also being screened on July 14th and 19th. Full details here.
Time Out review:
Jacques
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. Anouk 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 (Gary 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.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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