HOLY MOTORS

“Represents everything that cinema ought to be: poetic, unpractised in following convention and filled with mystery.” - Screen Comment

Leos Carax has been doing audience's heads in since his debut feature Boy Meets Girl (MIFF 84) and he doesn't hold back with this, his latest. The talk of Cannes, its story follows an apparently routine day in the company of Monsieur Oscar (the always fascinating Denis Lavant) as he completes nine increasingly bizarre “appointments” in various locations around Paris, arriving as a different persona at each one, the stretch limo in which he travels doubling as a makeup and costume department.

Confounding as it may be, the film is also contemplative, with Carax appearing to make a case of art for art's sake. The cast includes Eva Mendez and a singing Kylie Minogue.

“Holy Motors is weird and wonderful, rich and strange - barking mad, in fact. It is wayward, kaleidoscopic, black comic and bizarre; there is in it a batsqueak of genius, dishevelment and derangement; it is captivating and compelling.” - The Guardian

D/S Leos Carax P Martine Marignac Dist Icon L French w/English subtitles TD DCP/2012