Model Shop

featuring

Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay, Carol Cole,

Jacques Demy updates the fate of Lola (Anouk Aimée), the French prostitute who gave his first film its name in 1961. She has moved to Los Angeles and works in a “model shop,” where lonely men go to snap photos of beautiful women. 2001’s Gary Lockwood plays a would-be architect who pursues Lola like some holy grail through the City of Angels. Misunderstood or dismissed upon its release, Model Shop was Demy’s only American film, and it shows a fine outsider’s sense of atmosphere: LA’s fractured topography of beach, canyon, and low-rise metropolis; the pastel model shop with its labyrinth of back rooms; the lambent languor of the Sunset Strip at twilight. 

James Quandt
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Jacques Demy
Cinematographer
  • Michel Hugo
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 97 mins
Source
  • Sony Pictures

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