Saturday, May 1, 2010

IFFBoston Movie Review and Interview: Meghan Eckman's 'The Parking Lot Movie'

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Can a parking lot serve as a metaphor for America? Can it contain both our noblest of intentions and our basest of instincts? Can it teach us lessons about the nature of mankind, and about the joys and tribulations of work?

Director Meghan Eckman's first film, a documentary entitled The Parking Lot Movie, answers these questions with a resounding "Yes!" The Parking Lot Movie recently screened at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Hit the jump to read some of my thoughts on the movie, and to see my chat with Eckman about the profundity of parking lots, and how she kept herself from losing her mind while devoting three years of her life to interviewing parking lot attendants.
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