Model Shop (film)

Model Shop is a 1969 American film by French writerdirector Jacques Demy starring Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay and Anouk Aime and featuring a guest appearance by Spirit who also recorded the soundtrack. Demy made Model Shop, which was his first Englishlanguage film, following the international success of his film, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Model Shop is set in 1969 Los Angeles. Twentysixyear old George Matthews Gary Lockwood is floundering in life and somewhat directionless. An architect by trade, he is currently unemployed because his aspiration to build grand structures does not match the work of an architect just starting out. In addition, he is unable to make a long term commitment to his livein girlfriend Gloria Alexandra Hay, who has given him opportunity after opportunity to show her if she means as much to him as he does to her. Without a steady source of income, he scrounges to find 100 to pay off collection agents who are threatening to repossess his car.Georges life suddenly changes when he receives a draft notice to go fight in Vietnam. For the first time, George comes facetoface with his own mortality. Lost, he goes to a model shop or a tawdry studio specializing in erotic photographs, he becomes infatuated with one of the models, a French woman named Cecile working under her stage name Lola Anouk Aime. She faces similar problems in her life, having been abandoned by her husband Michel for a female gambler named Jackie Demaistre. In a tender night of drinking and lovemaking at Lolas apartment, George and Lola talk of their failed romances, their hopes, their dashed dreams, philosophy, and mortality. Through their conversation, they find the willpower to continue living. ........

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