1985 · musical · fantasy · orpheus
Parking
Directed by Jacques Demy1h 35m1985
Rock star Orpheus writes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. Torn between her and his sound engineer, Calaïs, he discovers Eurydice has died of an overdose. Desperate, he descends into the Underworld to bargain with Hades.
Our read: Parking (1985) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal musical · fantasy · orpheus entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured musical / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- inventive
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