Holy Motors
Enfant terrible Leos Carax triumphs with a captivating and provocative spectacle, imbued with admiration for Paris, film history and Kylie Minogue's singing.
- Holy Motors
- France 2012
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- Czech
- 115 min.
- Accessible
After a thirteen-year lull Leos Carax, the enfant terrible of French film, got triumphally back. In a film that many had tipped for 2012 Palme d’Or at Cannes, the director’s faithful partner Denis Lavant embodies the mysterious Monsieur Oscar, who in the course of a single day assumes a whole range of identities in a disturbing "performance” in front of invisible cameras. "What makes you carry on?” asks his boss, played by Michel Piccoli. "The beauty of the act,” replies Lavant’s chameleonesque hero in what could be a paraphrase of Carax’s own creative creed, which he has shared with us in a mere five films over nearly thirty years. His characteristically anguished romantic vision is combined with a provocative playfulness and a veneration of some of the more bizarre milestones of cinema (among them Georges Franju’s Les yeux sans visage). Woven into this bewitching spectacle is a love of Paris (watching helplessly as the legendary Samaritaine department store goes into terminal decline), the vanishing world of the limousine, and the songs of Kylie Minogue.
Read moreCannes Film Festival
2012 – Leos Carax (Award of the Youth)
Cahiers du Cinéma
2012 – Leos Carax (Best Film)
Chicago International Film Festival
2012 – Leos Carax (Best International Feature)
Chicago International Film Festival
2012 – Yves Cape, Caroline Champetier (Best Cinematography)
Chicago International Film Festival
2012 – Denis Lavant (Best Actor)
Sitges Film Festival
2012 – Leos Carax (Best Motion Picture)
Sitges Film Festival
2012 – Leos Carax (Best Director)
Sitges Film Festival
2012 – Leos Carax (José Luis Guarner Critic's Award)
Sitges Film Festival
2012 – Leos Carax (Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver)
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