Leos Carax returns to cinema after a 13-year hiatus with Holy Motors, a brilliant, visually striking film that was one of the toasts of this year's Cannes Film Festival.
This is a film that will divide critics, mess-up viewers' minds, and keep people guessing, digesting, discussing and puzzling for years to come. I thought it was brilliant. Leos Carax has crafted a weird, uniquely disturbing epic; a panorama of derangement, a celebration of surrealism. You won't believe your eyes.
Of all the films I review, my constant fear is that I shall fail to convey to the reader what the plot is like, and how I felt experiencing it. I usually do fail - every film review does, as words on a page can't really do justice to the images on a screen. But in this instance, please forgive me if I do not even try. It would be pointless to attempt to give an indepth description of the plot of Holy Motors. Part of the fun is trying to work out the film for oneself as it wanders along in its own bizarre wonderland. All I will say is this: it is about a man of many disguises, who travels around Paris in a limousine.
Carax, who until now has not made a film for 13 years, takes the viewer on a ride around France's gorgeously stylish capital and in doing so throws them down a rabbit hole that is terrifying, inspiring, hilarious and desperately sad.
The film is making its way around the cities of Britain. If it hasn't come to a screen near you, and if you have patience, intelligence and an interest in cinema, I implore you to buy it on DVD or, better still, on blu-ray. Not everyone will like it, but those who go in with an open mind will perhaps have one of the richest experiences they have ever had in front of a screen.
I doubt I will ever forget Holy Motors. It has stained my brain. And I am going to watch it again and again, and maybe then I will understand that stain a little bit more each time.
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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play. This freewheeling surrealist outing from France attempts to dispense almost completely with conventional narrative structure; instead, it offers a series of absurdist sketches with scarcely any discernible connection between them. Actors Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau, Jeanne Disson, Michel Piccoli, Leos Carax, Nastya Golubeva Carax, Reda Oumouzoune, Zlata, Geoffrey Carey, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Elise Caron & Corinne Yam Director Leos Carax Certificate 18 years and over Year 2012 Languages French Subtitles English
Leos Carax directs this surrealist French drama starring Denis Lavant, Kylie Minogue and Eva Mendes. Monsieur Oscar (Lavant) is a man of many identities. Driven around Paris by his chauffeur, Celine (Edith Scob), he makes use of an elaborate dressing room in his limousine to assume the appearance and identity of a number of different figures. At various points throughout the day Oscar is a businessman, a beggar, an assassin, a father and an old woman, venturing out into the world to engage with others in each role and embarking on bizarre adventures that include kidnapping a beautiful model, Kay (Mendes). What is at the root of Oscar's extraordinary behaviour?
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