Holy Motors

Director: Leos Carax

2012 / 115min / DCP

Returning to feature filmmaking after a 13-year hiatus, Carax reteamed with his acteur fétiche, Denis Lavant, here playing a mystery man, Oscar, chauffeured by driver Céline (Édith Scob, of Georges Franju’s 1960 Eyes Without a Face) to assignations throughout Paris in a white stretch limo, at each appointment taking on a different role: a street beggar, a motion capture suit performer, and the anarchic, carrot-topped Monsieur Merde first seen in Carax’s contribution to the anthology film Tokyo! (2008). “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

Distributor: AGFA