• Oct 11, 2012 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
  • Location: Film Society of Lincoln Center
  • Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2019

Holy Motors

Leos Carax, 2012
France | French with English subtitles | Format: DCP | 115 minutes

This unclassifiable, expansive movie from Leos Carax (Lovers on the Bridge)—his first feature in 13 years—operates on the exhilarating logic of dreams and emotions. After a prologue in which Carax himself, clad in pajamas, walks through a corridor that leads to a theater full of silent spectators, Holy Motors segues to actor Denis Lavant, Carax’s longtime collaborator, playing a mysterious man named Oscar who inhabits 11 different characters over the course of a single day. This shape-shifter is shuttled from appointment to appointment in Paris in a white-stretch limo driven by the soignée Edith Scob (Eyes Without a Face); not on the itinerary is an unplanned reunion with Kylie Minogue. To summarize the film any further would be to take away some of its magic; the most accurate précis comes from its own creator, who aptly described Holy Motors after its world premiere in Cannes as “a film about a man and the experience of being alive.” An Indomina Releasing release.

Series: NYFF50: Main Slate

Venue: Alice Tully Hall

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