Interview with Louis Godbout on "The Parking Spot"

As professor of philosophy Louis Godbout is no stranger to the theme of existentialist dread that becomes an unsetteling untercurrent of his third feature. The Parking Spot examines how a small disturbance in everyday life can errode a person's sense of social and self. On site at the Shanghai Internationl Film Festival where his surreal psychological drama has its world premiere in the main competition, the Canadian director-writer sat down for an interview with Lidanoir about the pressure of social self-assertation, fragil masculinity, and the influence of Goya's Dark Paintings on his film.