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Holy Motors

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Holy Motors

2012

Leos Carax

Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Kylie Minogue, Michel Piccoli ...

6.3

15,462

Drama From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man... He seems to be playing roles, plunging headlong into each part - but where are the cameras? Monsieur Oscar is alone, accompanied only by Céline, the slender blonde woman behind the wheel of the vast engine that transports him through and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'Holy Motors' is weird and wonderful, rich and strange –barking mad (...) this is what we have all come to Cannes for"	POS
United States	Megan Lehmann The Hollywood Reporter	"Exhilarating, opaque, heartbreaking and completely bonkers (...) a deliciously preposterous piece of filmmaking that appraises life and death and everything in between, reflected in a funhouse mirror"	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Nothing makes ''sense'' in this crazy-beautiful reverie (...) And yet everything is exactly as it should be in such an exhilarating puzzle, one of the grand cinematic eruptions of the year."	POS

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