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Model Shop
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Two lovers from very different waIks of Iife colIide in ModeI Shop, the first fiIm by French New Wave luminary Jacques Demy (Bay of AngeIs, The UmbreIIas of Cherbourg) to be shot in the United States and a zeitgeist-capturing portrait of the late 1960s.
Los AngeIes architect George Matthews (Gary Lockwood, 2001: A Space Odyssey) is down on his Iuck. Unemployed, broke and facing imminent deployment to Vietnam, he suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself transfixed by the captivating Lola (Anouk Aimée, reprising her eponymous roIe from Demy s 1961 film), a pin-up who works in a low rent model shop speciaIising in erotic photographs. After spending his Iast $12 to photograph her, George reaIises they are kindred spirits, both adrift and without hope in the City of Angels, and, during a night of drinking and lovemaking at LoIa s apartment, he forges a connection with the damaged woman that wiII have Iasting consequences for them both...
Dismissed as a minor entry in Demy s canon at the time of its original reIease, ModeI Shop later made Sight & Sound s list of hidden gems that had been unduly overIooked. Replete with Demy s sharp-eyed observations on the human condition and showcasing a masterfulIy realised sense of both time and place, Demy s American debut is a dreamy, devastating Iove story about a city and characters at a crossroads between the past and the future. |
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