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Parking
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Musical |
| Release Date: | May 29, 1985 |
| Running time: | 100 minutes |
| Cast: | Francis Huster, Laurent Malet, Keïko Ito, Gérard Klein, Marie-France Pisier |
| Director: | Jacques Demy |
| Writer: | Jacques Demy |
| Distributor: | A.M. Films |
Description: Parking is director Jacques Demy's homage to Jean Cocteau's 1948 masterwork Orpheus. As in the Cocteau film, Demy relates the Orpheus and Euridyce legend in a contemporary setting. Now a rock 'n' roll sensation (instead of the poet of the Cocteau film) Orpheus falls in love with Eurydice, who in this version is a sculptress rather than a princess. The rest of the film adheres to the familiar story. Euridyce, who is death personified, beckons Orpheus into Hell, ostensibly to revive his dead lover. A shade brighter and more buoyant than its source material, Parking is the usual Jacques Demy brew of beautiful imagery and hokey dialogue.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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