It's basically a movie about a guy who travels in a limo, from destination to destination, living a different life at each stop. It sounds, chiefly, to be a movie about the act of creating movies.
shareIn this interview with Carax http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/27/holy-motors-weird-world-leo s-carrax?intcmp=122 he says,
Some critics have speculated that Holy Motors is Carax's exuberant salute to the cinema he loves. They point to Kylie Minogue's crop-haired "Jean" as a reference to Breathless star Jean Seberg and the presence of a masked Edith Scob as a nod to the actor's early role in Georges Franju's brilliant Eyes Without a Face. Before setting forth as a filmmaker, the teenaged Carax steeped himself in the classics and then wrote reviews for Cahiers du Cinema. Here, surely, is where those age-old influences have all washed up.These are the themes explored through a chameleon character who passes through lives, hence the sci-fi reference. The same paper reviews the film http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/27/holy-motors-review and write,
The director isn't biting. If anything he regards Holy Motors as a science-fiction movie; a parable of human relationships in the internet age. It all started with those white limousines, which he saw as a neat symbol of the virtual world, in that they are rented by the hour; in that they want to be seen but won't let you see in; in that they are like living in a bubble. "I suppose I was trying to describe the experience of being alive in the internet world. The different lives we are able to live. The fatigue of being oneself. We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?" He twirls his cigarette. "I know that's true for me. I feel as though I've exhausted a few lives already."
Oscar is being ferried around Paris in the back of a white stretch limo; at the wheel is his trusted driver, Céline, played by Edith Scob. Levant's face is as inscrutable as Buster Keaton's, but its unreadability is all his own: it is a ruined-cherub face, or the face of an alien possessed of unearthly powers. Monsieur Oscar has a number of "appointments" to complete by the end of the day, whose specific needs he assesses by scanning various case folders. For each appointment, he gets into a new disguise: the back of the car is like a theatrical dressing room, and like Jim Phelps in TV's Mission: Impossible, he uses latex face masks.The reviewer's end remarks make me think he didn't quite understand what it was about!
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Thanks for the information!
shareYou're welcome. I suspect that the film does not make much sense to anyone in its entirety but I'm intrigued enough to watch it even though the trailer being shown in UK cinemas irritates me!
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I'll look for it here in the States.
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