movie review - The Delicate Art of Parking
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2004.12.06
This is a mockumentary about parking attendants. It is low budget, and it is Canadian. And it is everything that you hope for from a low-budget mockumentary, and few of the things you fear of low-budget Canadian movies.
Rather than obsessive or pretentious or cutesy, it's well paced, filled with cringe-factor-ten characters, and original. It tends to wander, toward the middle, and becomes overly dragged out. But the whole works. And it works because the self-serving documentary's film-maker's story and his hapless subjects' stories are intertwined in a way that just clicks. With a little editting, this could be an really outstanding film.
I recommend it none-the-less.
Recommended.