All-rightey. If you're still with me, "Holy Motors" is the latest from Leos Carax, who did the segment "Merde" in the anthology "Tokyo!", and re-teams him with Denis Lavant, a thirty-year veteran of French cinema and television and one of the country's most daring and expressive actors. If you don't know Lavant from the likes of "Beau Travail" or "Tuvalu", you may recognize him as the vagrant in the video for "Rabbit in Your Headlights" who stops a car with nothing but his outstretched body. In "Motors", Lavant's Mr. Oscar is a businessman who spends every day jutting from one appointment to another. Only Mr. Oscar is a not your typical businessman, and the appointments aren't very typical, either. His first is to change into a cripple's dirty rags and beg for change on the sidewalk. His second is to enter a visual fx studio, don a mo-cap suit and...
- 9/23/2012
- QuietEarth.us
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