Model Shop
Another Country: Outsider Visions of America
August 2 - 14, 2019
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg director Jacques Demy’s tenure in Hollywood would begin and end with this, one of his most underrated pictures, starring Gary Lockwood as an aspiring architect and full-time layabout in Los Angeles who comes face-to-face with his own mortality when he learns he’s been called in for the draft.
Gary Lockwood, back down to earth after 2001: A Space Odyssey, stars as George Matthews, an aspiring architect and full-time layabout. Model Shop follows him throughout the course of a particularly bad day—on the outs with his girlfriend, he drives around Los Angeles looking to borrow a hundred dollars so that his convertible won’t be repossessed, and soon comes face-to-face with his own mortality when he learns he’s been called in for the draft. But chance encounters with a mysterious French woman (Anouk Aimée) suggest a new beginning. As ever an immaculate colorist, Jacques Demy captures the low-slung poetry of that lonely city in a style uniquely his own. His time in America, he would later recall, had enlivened him creatively after a period of significant enervation, but Demy’s tenure in Hollywood would begin and end with this, one of his most underrated pictures.
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