Presented by Villa Albertine in honor of the 250th anniversary of French-American relations, this series celebrates cultural exchange and cinematic collaboration between the two countries on the silver screen. Join us on the west lawn of Hollyhock House for an evening of great cinema, live music and food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Model Shop<\/strong><\/em> Legendary French director Jacques Demy\u2019s sole English-language studio film is an outsider\u2019s attempt to define Los Angeles as a city on screen, featuring beautiful photography of the city\u2019s Westside and capturing everyday life in L.A. as a place of drifting, melancholy, and possibility. A slacker architect (Gary Lockwood) is about to lose his girlfriend and his car, until he sees a beautiful model (Anouk Aim\u00e9e) and begins to follow her, from Malibu Beach to Beverly Hills mansions to Santa Monica Boulevard\u2019s strip malls. One of the key 1960s films about L.A. and a forerunner of the New Hollywood youth culture, Demy\u2019s film pays a dreamlike reverence to the city\u2019s landscape, and endures as a relaxed and poignant vision of the sprawling city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCritically underrated and neglected\u2026 A portrait of everyday life Los Angeles in 1969 that seems remarkably accurate and authentic.<\/em>\u201d -Jonathan Rosenbaum<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you live [in L.A.], you have to be moved.<\/em>\u201d -Thom Andersen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Directed by Jacques Demy
1969, PG, 1h37, USA
Starring Anouk Aim\u00e9e, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay<\/p>\n\n\n\n