Holy Motors

About

Joyous, hilarious, and otherworldly are but a few ways to describe this liquid narrative from Leos Carax, creator of LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE, BOY MEETS GIRL, MAUVAIS SANG, and POLA X. In the performance(s) of a lifetime, regular Carax collaborator Denis Lavant is an amorphous actor on a chameleonic mission to inhabit a variety of public roles: a bag lady, an assassin, a sewer-dwelling freakazoid, a heated lover, and much more. Chauffeured around Paris by Edith Scob (EYES WITHOUT A FACE), Lavant commits to each character so thoroughly and engages you so quickly with each swap that it’s impossible to predict what comes next. Essential 21st-century viewing. (AGFA)