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Holy Motors [Blu-ray]

Denis Lavant , Edith Scob , Leos Carax    Suitable for 18 years and over   Blu-ray
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
  • Directors: Leos Carax
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: French
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Jan 2013
  • Run Time: 115 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B009G3W9MY
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,584 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Surreal? Erratic? Mad? Daring? Those four words are a good start when it comes to describing Leos Carax's Holy Motors. It's only the writer/director's second film in 13 years, following 1999's Pola X, and here he's focusing on a single day in Paris. Moreover, we spend time in the company of Monsieur Oscar, played by regular Carax collaborator Denis Levant. Monsieur Oscar is a chameleon-like figure, who's being chauffeured around the city. And while travelling, he takes on the guise of many others, swiftly changing on board before heading off for his next appointment.

This puts a sizeable responsibility on the shoulders of Denis Levant, as the number of characters he's effectively inhabiting in Holy Motors hits double figures. The different guises, which vary dramatically, also allow Carax to shift the tone of the film a lot. The finished movie is wildly ambitious, as unpredictable as anything to hit the screen in 2012, and often, quite brilliant as well.

The disc features an interview with Leos Carax, as well as a collection of scenes that didn't eventually make the final cut of the movie. It's a decent package, to support a film that demonstrates the ongoing genius of its writer/director. If you've ever complained that films are just a little bit too predictable, then Holy Motors is even more of an unmissable movie. --Jon Foster

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Leos Carax returns to cinema after a 13-year hiatus with Holy Motors, a brilliant, visually striking film that was one of the toasts of this year's Cannes Film Festival.

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars More like this! 16 Oct 2012
By S. Park
Format:DVD
We follow a day in the life of Monsieur Oscar being driven around Paris in a white stretch limo by Céline (his driver and secretary), who ferries him around from one 'appointment' to another. To get full enjoyment from this film stop there and watch it. Anything else you read may spoil or confuse and may not be entirely accurate.

For those intrigued to know more... Each one of Oscar's appointments could be played as its own short film. We realise that the limo is full of masks, make-up and costumes for Oscar to change his appearance to fulfil his role at each appointment. Throughout the film he changes his character about ten times to be different people, these include an old beggar woman, a powerful business man, a dying millionaire, a murderer, a kidnapper, a CGI snake, an angry uncle and husband to a chimp family. The film doesn't explain what or why each of these appointments are carried out although the audience is given a few hints to form their own conclusions. However 'why' is really not the point here, accepting that he just does makes the experience much more enjoyable. It's simply amazing to watch our character step into a completely different role and make it convincing. The argument he has with his young niece (if it's actually his young niece) is sheer brilliance, but somewhat disturbing at the same time. The character is convincing but it's not clear what is real and what isn't. This is all down to Denis Lavant as our main character and Leos Carax for some superb direction. In addition we are treated to some short but touching set pieces by Eva Mendes and Kylie.

This is essentially an art-house film, but unlike unlike other such films this is full of comedy, some subtle and some proper laugh-out-loud moments. Meaning it never takes itself too seriously and never talks down to the audience. The audience is definitely a needed extension to this film, especially if you allow yourself to be drawn in and experience the journey.

This is certainly very Lynchian and recommended for any fans of his work. After leaving the cinema I was still very caught-up in the world that Carax had created. I had the same feeling after watching Inland Empire and to a certain extent Cosmopolis.

I tend to be a harsh critic, but I really can't think of anything I didn't like. Kylie dropped in a song which could have been cringe-worthy, but actually worked well. Even the talking limos were there as comedy value rather than to annoy. As for plot holes, not only would it be impossible to find one, but also rather pointless as this film goes beyond that conventional way of thinking.

This is art done well; more please!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An instant cult classic 6 Mar 2013
Format:Blu-ray
Holy Motors is definitely one of the strangest, original and best films to come out of France last year. It's an instant cult classic that certainly won't be to everyone's taste as not everyone will appreciate it for the work of art it is.
French actor Denis Lavant excels as a mysterious actor who travels around Paris in a Limo, stopping off along the way to play an array of different characters from an old woman begging, a crazy tramp, an assassin to an old man on his death bed.
For some people the film won't make a great deal of sense as it doesn't have a clear point. To me it is one of those wonderfully strange, off the wall oddysseys about life that will require numerous viewings as it has so much to offer.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Leos Carax returns with a gem. 1 Mar 2013
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Holy motors reviews the relationship between Carax and the superb Denis Lavant. It starts with Carax in a dream sequence and continues throughout the film. Carax puts Lavant through many vignettes. He touches on his wifes suicide. He revisits the character "Merde" first seen in Tokyo. One of Lavants characters is seen twice. Once as the father of a teeneage girl. Then towards the end of the film his "family" become chimpanzees. A stunning film visually and thought provoking on many levels.
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3.0 out of 5 stars no more than 3 stars
Maybe it's because I welcome this movie with high expectations, but I was quite let down after watching it. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Luca Piccirilli
5.0 out of 5 stars Emotional and visionary
A film that is as moving as it is strange, managing to be both emotional and visionary.

Best of all, it make you re-discover your love for cinema and its... Read more
Published 28 days ago by J. Baker
3.0 out of 5 stars Fascinatingly Freaky!
As I suspected, this is a film that ordinary mere-mortals don't like and don't get, therefore because of that, they label the film as "bad" or "valueless". Read more
Published 1 month ago by PoochJD
5.0 out of 5 stars Top Gear.....
As long as you don't mind subtitles and do like wildly offbeat films this could be the film for you! It follows the bizarre "appointments" of a businessman (? Read more
Published 1 month ago by Phil C
1.0 out of 5 stars Arthouse schmarthouse
Now there will be a lot of pretentious guff written about this Franco/German collaboration directed by (and also featuring) Leos Carax, but the bottom line is that fantasy or... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Scaroth, Last of the Jagaroth
2.0 out of 5 stars Holy Motors
I can honestly say that this is one of the strangest movies I ahve ever seen. Best of luck understanding it
Published 2 months ago by David J. Brooks
1.0 out of 5 stars 'Holy Motors' is boring, nonsensical avant-garde hogwash. It's one of...
The film is a parade of pseudo-intellectual claptrap, a mere montage of disjointed oddity; it has no direction, it just presents the viewer with one weird, meaningless image after... Read more
Published 2 months ago by J. Hawkins
2.0 out of 5 stars Daring but soulless
I saw this film at the cinema after reading glowing reviews. It's like a series of short films with Levant taken round in a limousine between various abstract acting "jobs"- a... Read more
Published 3 months ago by D. A. Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars `Holy Motors' is a paean to film and filmmaking, and the actor's...
Mr Oscar (Denis Levant) is a wealthy middle-aged man, a very busy man with a packed schedule. His secretary and chauffeur Celine (Édith Scob) informs her boss of the first... Read more
Published 4 months ago by dipesh parmar
2.0 out of 5 stars Tired, ill-conceived, pretentious.
I saw the film upon release, and am forced to wholeheartedly disagree with the above reviews. I found the film to be totally bewildering, but far from being audacious, I found it a... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. B
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