Holy Motors
- 2012
- France
- 115 min
- 18
- Directed by: Leos Carax
- Written by: Leos Carax
- Cast: Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Michel Piccoli, Jean-François Balmer
First film in over a decade from Carax, starring Lavant as a man who travels between multiple parallel lives.
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Reviews & features
An examination of Leos Carax's Holy Motors
18 Sep 2012
The Cannes crowdpleaser questions the medium of cinema and the nature of performance
Whisked from place to place by his glamorous chauffeur Céline, a man initially seen in business attire keeps a succession of appointments. Before each stop, he transforms himself using elaborate costumes, wigs and prosthetics. He’s a crippled beggar…
Bonkers Cannes crowd-pleaser Holy Motors marks return of filmmaker Leos Carax
16 Aug 2012
Blackly comic, deranged and compelling offering from the rebel French director
French filmmaker Leos Carax is an acquired taste. Critically acclaimed but marginalised by any kind of real international success his trajectory through the 1980s and 1990s was marked by a poetic desire to depict love in all its torture, lust and…
Holy Motors
28 May 2012
Hugely satisfying and inventive celebration of cinema from Leos Carax
Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavant) is picked up by his driver Celine (Edith Scob) for a day’s work - 9 appointments that will take him across Paris and into the paths of an array of characters. If that sounds vague, it’s deliberate - to say anymore would…
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