Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Boy meets girl, boy leaves girl, boy and girl get back together.
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench recasts this timeless story as an MGM-style musical told with the French New Wave influences of Jean-Luc Godard, the jazz styling of Miles Davis and the gritty honesty of John Cassavetes.
Shot in black and white and featuring an original score composed by Justin Hurwitz, director Damien Chazelle composes a breezy musical jazz riff which comes across as a slacker take on
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
"An ingenious, enchanting hybrid of an old-fashioned Hollywood-style musical and a verite cityscape" Amy Taubin, Film Comment
