Parking (Motion picture) Intégrale Jacques Demy. DVD 11, Évènement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune; Parking.
Notes:
L'évènement le plus important ... : Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Claude Melki, Mireille Mathieu. Parking: Francis Huster, Keiko Ito, Laurent Malet, Gérard Klein, Jean Marais. Originally released as motion pictures in 1973 (L'évènement le plus important ...) & 1985 (Parking). Special features: L'évènement ... as seen by Marie Colmant ; Parking as seen by Jean-Pierre Berthomé ; about the films, text by Jean-Pierre Berthomé, read by Mathieu Demy ; "Alsace Soir" - documentary on the making of Parking ; trailers ; poster. "ARTE Vidéo et Ciné-Tamaris Vidéo coéditent ce coffret qui rassemble sur 12 disques l'intégralité des films de Jacques Demy."--Ciné-Tamaris website, viewed 21 January 2010. Available as part of a box-set, 'Intégrale Jacques Demy', containing 12 DVDs, an audio CD and, a photo booklet. DVDs packaged as: Le courts métrages de Jacques Demy ; Iola ; Model shop ; La baie de anges ; Les parapluies de Cherbourg ; Les demoiselles de Rochefort ; Peau d'âne ; The pied piper ; Lady Oscar ; Le bel indifférent ; La naissance du jour ; Une chambre en ville ; L'événement le plus important ; Parking ; Trois places pour le 26.
Summary:
L'évènement le plus important ... : A male Parisian driving school owner who goes to see his doctor and complains of feeling run down is pronounced four months pregnant. When the diagnosis is confirmed by a specialist, the result is an international media frenzy. Parking: 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.
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