25.06.2026 • 17 Min.

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.