Model Shop
Jacques Demy / US, 1968 / 97 min.
After Lola (1961), Anouk Aimée worked with Jacques Demy again on his first English-language film. She plays a mysterious woman who enchants a recently graduated architect in Los Angeles. 2K restoration.
George (Gary Lockwood) is a young man who seems without purpose, even though he has opportunities to succeed. He’s recently left his job as an architect, not wanting to put the effort in on mundane projects in order to earn the opportunity to create grander things later on. His relationship with his live-in girlfriend is rocky, and his car is about to be repossessed. Life is not turning out how he would have wanted.
Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) had already made four feature films and a number of shorts in France before he and Agnes Varda headed off to Hollywood in 1968 to take up a lucrative offer made by Columbia. The result was Model Shop, Demy’s first feature in the English language, released in 1969. But although (or perhaps because) Columbia granted Demy complete autonomy over the work, including final cut, the film did not garner box office success, and Demy returned to France to continue his filmmaking on home soil.
2K restoration (Sony Pictures)
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Director
Jacques Demy
Production year
1968
Country
US
Original title
Model Shop
Length
97 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
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