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‘Holy Motors’ Trailer Looks Like a Shaken Cat in a Burlap Sack
1 hour ago | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The question is, do you open the sack? Simon’s review from Cannes praises the positive brand of bat-shit insanity that Leos Carax‘s latest flick, Holy Motors, has going for it: “Really, the film is no more than a Kafkaesque short story idea, stretched out into a high-high-concept film that is baffling, infuriating and brilliant in equal measure. It will undoubtedly pick up five star reviews, and the only restraint on this review comes from my own refusal to cast off the conventional entertainment gauge: it’s hard to imagine anyone enjoying their popcorn when confronted with a naked man with an erection eating Eva Mendes‘s hair.” The trailer has a violent tone to it, a dangerous smoke that lingers, something felt but not always seen. There is an angry potential to it (hence the cat simile). Essentially, it feels like the kind of movie that dares you to see it. Check »
- Cole Abaius
'Holy Motors' Trailer
1 hour ago | FlicksNews.net | See recent FlicksNews.net news »
First trailer for Leo Carax' 'Holy Motors,' which stars Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue.
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 around Paris. He’s like a conscientious assassin moving from hit to hit. In pursuit of the beautiful gesture, the mysterious driving force, the women and the ghosts of past lives. But where is his true home, his family, his rest?
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- noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)
Carax's 'Holy Motors' Finds a U.S. Home With Indomina
27 May 2012 7:04 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Indomina has acquired the Us distribution rights to Leo Carax's acclaimed Cannes title "Holy Motors" on the final day of the festival, it was announced. Starring Michel Piccoli, Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue, the film gained some of the best reviews out of the festival. Indiewire's Eric Kohn called it "balls-to-the-wall crazy, beautiful and unbelievably strange" in his review. Rob Williams, Indomina’s Vice President of Acquisitions, negotiated the deal with Carole Baraton of Wild Bunch, which is handling international sales for the film. Full press release below. Cannes, France (May 27, 2012) --- It was announced today that The Indomina Group, the fast-growing producer and distributor of film, TV and trans-media content, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Leos Carax’s critically acclaimed French drama “Holy Motors,” an official Cannes competition film starring Michel Piccoli, Denis Lavant, Eva »
- Peter Knegt
Cannes 2012: Indomina Buys U.S. Rights to Competition Film 'Holy Motors'
27 May 2012 1:34 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
The Indomina Group has acquired U.S. distribution rights to French drama Holy Motors, which is part of the Competition of the Cannes Film Festival. The movie, written and directed by Leos Carax, stars Michel Piccoli, Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue. The film chronicles 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," a description of the film says. "But where is his true home, his family, his rest?" “Leos Carax is a masterful
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- Georg Szalai
Jean-Louis Trintignant: Cannes Best Actor Prediction
26 May 2012 7:16 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour / Love (with Emmanuelle Riva) Cannes Film Festival Best Actor contenders are many. On top of the list is veteran Jean-Louis Trintignant in Michael Haneke’s romantic tragedy Amour / Love. Amour is the 81-year-old Trintignant’s first film in nearly a decade; it may also turn out to be his last. That in itself makes Trintignant the sentimental favorite for the Cannes 2012 Best Actor Award. If that weren’t all, both Amour and its cast have earned singularly enthusiastic notices, e.g., "utterly captivating," as per The Guardian‘s Jason Solomons. If Trintignant does take home the Best Actor prize, that’ll mark his second Cannes victory: the first was for his judge in Costa-Gavras’ political drama Z, 43 years ago. Other strong Best Actor possibilities include the following: Robert Pattinson surprised those who believed he actually was a vegetarian vampire who sparkled in the sunlight. As an arrogant »
- Andre Soares
Cannes 2012 roundup: Michael Haneke's Amour conquers all
26 May 2012 4:12 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From the bonkers Holy Motors to the disappointing On the Road, Cannes offered plenty of breadth, but only Michael Haneke's exquisite tale of an elderly man caring for his frail wife in their Paris apartment ticked all the boxes
Michael Haneke is too good. Whenever the Austrian director shows one of his films in Cannes, I always come out thinking the others might as well just pack up and go home because they'll never reach his awesome heights of control and precision. It's like the days when Beethoven was around and everyone else gave up composing. Haneke's Amour, about an elderly man looking after his frail wife (Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, both utterly captivating) when a stroke confines her to their Paris apartment, was by some stretch the finest film at Cannes. It was the only piece to be exquisitely acted, composed, paced and pitched, as well as »
- Jason Solomons
First Trailer for Leo Carax' Holy Motors
26 May 2012 4:00 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Here is the first trailer for Leo Carax' Holy Motors, which stars Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes and singer Kylie Minogue. The film follows the mysterious Monsieur Oscar during a 24 hours in the day as he travels between different lives ranging from a murderer to a corporate executive to a monstrous creature. The film premiered at Cannes this past week and has been getting positive reviews.
Here's the full synopsis from the Cannes website:
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 around Paris. »
- Tiberius
Cannes 2012: Leos Carax's 'Holy Motors' Seals U.K. Deal
25 May 2012 9:10 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Independent distributor Artificial Eye snapped up U.K. rights to a quartet of titles during this year's Festival de Cannes including Leos Carax's Holy Motors, starring Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue. The arthouse distribution specialist used cash raised by its film rights acquisition funding vehicle Curzon Film Rights 2 to fuel its spending spree. It also took rights to Claude Miller's Therese Desqueyroux, Lou Ye's Mystery and Arnaud des Pallieres' Michael Kohlaas. Carax’s Holy Motors also stars Denis Lavant and Edith Scob and is described as a surrealist tale. Playing In Competition, the deal for Holy Motors was negotiated with
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- Stuart Kemp
Cannes Review: Leos Carax's 'Holy Motors' Is An Anything Goes Stew Of Big Ideas That Doesn't Always Work
24 May 2012 3:04 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Hilarious and dull, fascinating and pretentious, there is no doubt that Leos Carax's "Holy Motors" is memorable. Whether it's actually any good is up for debate. Bold and confounding in equal measure, Carax's first feature in over a decade is less a movie than a collection of sketches about the making of movies, inspired by a handful of projects Carax has tried to realize over the years but which never came together. Carrying a contemptuousness and cynicism about the current state of cinema -- "All of it made possible by digital cameras, which I despise" Carax says in the press notes of the film -- the helmer both gazes outwards and look inwards in an ultimately sloppy and tremendously bonkers screed.
Carax himself opens the movie, waking up in bed with his index finger turning into a key which opens a door hidden in the wall of his room »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Cannes 2012: Holy Motors | Review
23 May 2012 4:25 PM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
The kind of film the Cannes Film Festival, and cinema itself, was meant for, Leos Carax’s Holy Motors is a deranged, exhilarating miracle of a film that is almost impossible to make logical sense of – not that that matters. As majestic as the film is in craft, innovation, and singular weirdness, the lead role played by regular collaborator Denis Lavant is a masterpiece in and of itself. Playing at least ten different characters over the nearly two-hour duration, Lavant gives a shape-shifting performance that even makes Laura Dern’s quadratic turn in Inland Empire look somewhat paltry in comparison.
Is Carax’s opus a series of short films with a connective conceit? A rumination on digital-age avatars and humanity’s loss of identity, self, and body? Or maybe it’s an apocalyptic fever dream that imagines – cinematically – the meeting of all movie and theatre genres in a single place. »
- Blake Williams
Cannes 2012: Holy Motors – review
23 May 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Leos Carax's experimental odyssey is barking mad, weightless and euphoric – it's what we have all come to Cannes for
Leos Carax's Holy Motors is weird and wonderful, rich and strange – barking mad, in fact. It is wayward, kaleidoscopic, black comic and bizarre; there is in it a batsqueak of genius, dishevelment and derangement; it is captivating and compelling. This film may or may not be a prizewinner here – although I think it may actually get the Palme d'Or – but really this is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama. Some may find it affected or exasperating; I found it weightless and euphoric.
Holy Motors is a mysterious odyssey through the streets of an eerie, »
- Peter Bradshaw
[Cannes Review] Holy Motors
23 May 2012 11:45 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
In Leos Carax‘s (Pola X) delightfully surreal Holy Motors, the filmmaker seems to be channeling the absurd sensibilities of Luis Buñuel in his prime. Having not made a feature film in almost a decade, the funky French filmmaker, who is already known for his somewhat bizarre cinematic sensibilities, seems to have completely eschewed the traditional rules of narrative film for something far more entertaining. Despite the seemingly endless randomness of each moment, there is a definite message about acting, directing and filmmaking as a whole. Featuring a series of outlandish vignettes strung together by an enigmatic chameleon-like lead character, Holy Motors is not only the most eccentric film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, it’s also one of the best.
The movie opens with a similar meta-shot of an audience as Michael Haneke’s Amour, showing a group of people quietly seated for an oncoming cinematic roller-coaster. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Ryan Gosling Not Ready to Move in with Girlfriend Eva Mendes
23 May 2012 10:40 AM, PDT | National Ledger | See recent National Ledger news »
Ryan Gosling is not ready to move in with Eva Mendes according to reports. The 'Gangster Squad' actor apparently refused to cohabit with his actress girlfriend who it emerged he was dating last September. An insider claims 31-year-old Ryan wants to take their relationship at a slower pace than the 38-year-old 'Girl In Progress' star would like. The source told Us Weekly: ''He says he wants to slow down and not live with her yet. But he doesn't want to lose her.'' 'The Place Beyond the Pinescostars' costars were rumoured to be experiencing problems in their romantic partnership in April. But the pair squashed the speculation with a hand-holding coffee run near Ryan's East Village New York City property earlier this month (10.05.12). Meanwhile Eva has revealed that her mother is her toughest fashion critic. She said: ''Normally I do something on the red carpet and wherever I »
'Holy Motors' Movie Review - 2012 Cannes Film Festival
23 May 2012 10:01 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
What the hell did I just watch? This was my first reaction to Leos Carax's Holy Motors, a movie that is not so much a movie as it is a collection of ideas, visuals and themes all in an effort to present a commentary on the current state of filmmaking... I think.
In all honesty, I can't commit to any one interpretation of this film and in no way believe I can speak as an authority in any way. The film opens with a man (Carax) who wakes, trapped in a room with no door. Wallpaper depicting a black and white forest surrounds him. He pounds on the wall, listening for a hollow opening that might present a way out. Suddenly the middle finger on his right hand is a key of sorts, he pushes it into the only hole the wall has, it turns, it unlocks and he breaks through the paper. »
- Brad Brevet
'Holy Motors' Movie Review - 2012 Cannes Film Festival (2013)
23 May 2012 10:01 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
What the hell did I just watch? This was my first reaction to Leos Carax's Holy Motors, a movie that is not so much a movie as it is a collection of ideas, visuals and themes all in an effort to present a commentary on the current state of filmmaking... I think.
In all honesty, I can't commit to any one interpretation of this film and in no way believe I can speak as an authority in any way. The film opens with a man (Carax) who wakes, trapped in a room with no door. Wallpaper depicting a black and white forest surrounds him. He pounds on the wall, listening for a hollow opening that might present a way out. Suddenly the middle finger on his right hand is a key of sorts, he pushes it into the only hole the wall has, it turns, it unlocks and he breaks through the paper. »
- Brad Brevet
Eva Mendes' Mother Offers Style Verdicts
23 May 2012 9:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Eva Mendes always has her very own style consultant at hand - her mother emails her with verdicts on the actress' red carpet outfits.
The Hitch star regularly makes the fashion pages of magazines with her glitzy gowns, but Mendes' mum chimes in first with her thoughts on the clothes her daughter has picked.
Mendes says, "Normally I do something on the red carpet and wherever I am in the world she sends me a full email within minutes with everything she thought of my outfit.
"It's really super cute. It's not like crazy. It is never negative, it is always constructive. It's like, 'Eva, I don't know about that lipstick but that dress was gorgeous!' And then it will say, 'Hmm, your shoes? But your hair was lovely!'" »
First Trailer and New Images for Holy Motors with Eva Mendes & Kylie Minogue
23 May 2012 9:09 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
BAFTA-nominated French writer-director Leos Carax returns behind the camera with Holy Motors for his feature since 1999’s controversial Pola X.
Debuting at Cannes yesterday to positive reviews, the first trailer and a new batch of images have surfaced over at the festival’s official site, giving an intriguing and confounding first look at the film.
“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 around Paris. He’s like a conscientious assassin moving from hit to hit.
In pursuit of the beautiful gesture, »
- Kenji Lloyd
Cannes Film Festival 2012: Kylie Minogue 'stripped herself' for role in sci-fi fantasy Holy Motors
23 May 2012 8:53 AM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Realising like Madonna that the key to enduring success is constant reinvention, Kylie Minogue has revealed she "stripped herself of being Kylie" for her role in a new sci-fi fantasy.
The Aussie pop star appears in French director Leos Carax's surreal offering Holy Motors and said she wanted to be as open as possible for the role.
Speaking at the Cannes International Film Festival, she said: "It felt good to be back on set.
"I took it very seriously, I basically banned my entire entourage of coming with me. I kind of stripped myself of being Kylie and wanted to go back to being as basic as possible and pretty much be a blank canvas for Leos."
Holy Motors follows a man, played by Denis Lavant, who travels between multiple parallel lives, occupying various roles. At one point he's a monstrous creature that gate-crashes a photoshoot and kidnaps a »
- David Bentley
Cannes 2012: Trailer, Clip and Pictures for Wacked Out 'Holy Motors'
23 May 2012 8:47 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I have my review written for Leos Carax's Holy Motors, but I wanted to present the trailer and a clip from the film before posting it so you had some idea as to what I was talking about before I actually talked about it, because this is not your average movie. In fact, it's whacked out of its effing mind! Here's the synopsis (not that it's going to help you much): From dawn to after nightfall, 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 Celine, the slender blonde woman behind the wheel of the vast engine that transports him in and around Paris. »
- Brad Brevet
Trailer for Leos Carax’s Cannes darling Holy Motors arrives, and we have it
23 May 2012 8:44 AM, PDT | GordonandtheWhale | See recent GordonandtheWhale news »
As Cannes 2012 nears its end, one film appears to be standing up, buzz-wise, as the true film to watch coming out of the festical.
Director Leos Carax's Holy Motors stars Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes and even Kylie Minogue, and has found a laundry list of supporters within the film criticism world.
Read more on Trailer for Leos Carax’s Cannes darling Holy Motors arrives, and we have it...
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