Parking (1985)
Genre: Music
Duration: 95 minuten
Country:
France
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Stars: Francis Huster, Laurent Malet and Keiko Itô
IMDb score:
4,6 (384)
Releasedate: 29 May 1985
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Parking plot
"A film by Jacques Demy"
Orphée is a rock and roll sensation who is married to Euridice, an artist. When she dies of an overdose, Orphée does everything in his power to get her back from the underworld. Parking is Jacques Demy's musical homage to Jean Cocteau's 1948 version.
Actors and actresses
Orpheus
Calaïs
Eurydice
Aristée
Hadès / The Devil
Claude Perséphone
Caron
Dominique Daniel
Lucienne
L'habilleuse
Reviews & comments
Bobbejaantje
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- 2301 messages
- 2092 votes
Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand have certainly delivered some gems together, but this film is, as far as I'm concerned, at the bottom of their oeuvre. No magic, no charm, not a speck of flair... Flat acting and unbelievable relationships. Francis Huster does his best but his silly red headband doesn't help anyway. They brought in Keiko Ito (as a Japanese actress) to get financing for the film, I read somewhere. If that's true, I wouldn't be surprised at what role she's being given here. Her relationship with Francis Huster, a kind of John & Yoko relationship it seems, is very strange in an already strange story.
Apparently the film is a kind of remake of Cocteau's Orphée. So the few good ideas I saw in the film are most likely not even original. The life of pop star Huster with the so-called frenzied fans in the concert hall is mostly fake. Up to the point. Like the scene where he is carried outside at the end and then killed out of the blue. The scene is also idiotic in which he tries to crush himself only to receive a little distant commentary from his entourage afterwards in the hospital. I still find the scenes in hell with Jean Marais and the cops equipped with 80s desktops quite amusing, close to camp.
Unfortunately, Michel Legrand's music is also weak and uninspired. For the first time with this film I saw a work by the duo in which the mayonnaise does not pack. Can happen. Hopefully better next time.
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