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Holy Motors

  • 20122012
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 55m
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7.0/10
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Holy Motors (2012)
Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine "appointments," transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop.
Play trailer2:33
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A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
47K
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    • Leos Carax
    • Leos Carax(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Denis Lavant
    • Edith Scob
    • Eva Mendes
    • Leos Carax
    • Leos Carax(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Denis Lavant
    • Edith Scob
    • Eva Mendes
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 158User reviews
    • 354Critic reviews
    • 84Metascore
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    Videos2

    Theatrical Version
    Trailer 2:33
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    Cannes Trailer
    Trailer 1:45
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    Photos97

    Denis Lavant in Holy Motors (2012)
    Leos Carax in Holy Motors (2012)
    Edith Scob in Holy Motors (2012)
    Holy Motors (2012)
    Leos Carax at an event for Holy Motors (2012)
    Denis Lavant at an event for Holy Motors (2012)
    Kylie Minogue at an event for Holy Motors (2012)
    Kylie Minogue, Leos Carax, Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Elise Lhomeau, and Jeanne Disson at an event for Holy Motors (2012)
    Kylie Minogue at an event for Holy Motors (2012)
    Edith Scob at an event for Holy Motors (2012)
    Kylie Minogue at an event for Holy Motors (2012)
    Kylie Minogue, Leos Carax, Denis Lavant, and Edith Scob at an event for Holy Motors (2012)

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    Denis Lavant
    Denis Lavant
    • Mr. Oscar…
    Edith Scob
    Edith Scob
    • Céline
    • (as Édith Scob)
    Eva Mendes
    Eva Mendes
    • Kay M
    Kylie Minogue
    Kylie Minogue
    • Eva Grace (Jean)
    Elise Lhomeau
    Elise Lhomeau
    • Léa (Élise)
    Jeanne Disson
    • Angèle
    Michel Piccoli
    Michel Piccoli
    • L'Homme à la tache de vin
    Leos Carax
    Leos Carax
    • Le Dormeur…
    Nastya Golubeva Carax
    • La Petite Fille
    Reda Oumouzoune
    • L'Acrobate Mocap
    Zlata
    • La Cyber-Femme
    Geoffrey Carey
    • Le Photographe…
    Annabelle Dexter-Jones
    Annabelle Dexter-Jones
    • L'assistante photographe
    Élise Caron
      Corinne Yam
      Corinne Yam
      Julien Prévost
      Ahcène Nini
      Laurent Lacotte
      • Voix Limousine
      • (voice)
        • Leos Carax
        • Leos Carax(screenplay)
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      Storyline

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      • Trivia
        Leos Carax offered the part of Mr. Oscar's love from the past to his own former girlfriend, Juliette Binoche. According to Carax, they finally "did not get along". He then rewrote the part, made it a singing character and cast Kylie Minogue instead.
      • Quotes

        Angèle: I'll be punished?

        Mr. Oscar: Yes. Your punishment, my poor Angèle, is to be you. To have to live with yourself.

      • Crazy credits
        "Katya, for you" with a picture of Yekaterina Golubeva during the closing credits.
      • Connections
        Featured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2012 (2012)
      • Soundtracks
        Who Were We?
        Lyrics by Leos Carax and Neil Hannon

        Music by Neil Hannon

        Orchestrated and arranged by Andrew Skeet

        Performed by Kylie Minogue and Berlin Music Ensemble

      User reviews158

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      'Holy Motors' is tediously obscurist hogwash.
      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 another. I derive no positive emotion from a film that relies solely on ambiguous subtext, surrealism and symbolism.

      I began to lose faith in the film by the 40 minute mark, each minute after that began to drag severely. There are scenes that are well acted and quite touching, but when they're thrown into this mess they're completely wasted. Some people have been flabbergasted by the suggestion that it's 'boring', I don't see what's so surprising about that, how can you be engaged by something that's so utterly meaningless?

      Some people have praised its imagery, waffling on about how it 'celebrates the medium'. I agree it's striking and unconventional, but that's all it is; the best films achieve in both celebrating the medium of film and delivering strong, engaging narratives, whether they're simple or complex. Any idiot can throw together two hours of sheer meaningless oddity and claim it to be 'metaphorical' – it's weak filmmaking.

      Even fans of the film have no idea what's going on, however many of them seem to relish mustering up their own vague, self-aggrandising interpretations of it. Although there are those who genuinely enjoy such ambiguity and have an honest approach to analysing the film, there are many that don't.

      These are people who are likely to fiercely defend the film; typically, they will patronisingly label the film's critics as ignoramuses who need their narratives to be 'spoon-fed' to them. I cringe to think about the scores of obnoxiously pseudo-intellectual people who will attempt to revel in the utter poppycock that 'Holy Motors' serves by the shovel load. I apologise for such strong language, but it irks me.

      This is as bad as avant-garde cinema gets; it's nothing more than an indulgence by Leos Carax.

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      • Release date
        • July 4, 2012 (France)
        • France
        • Germany
        • Belgium
        • French
        • English
        • Chinese
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      • Filming locations
        • Grand Magasin de la Samaritaine, 17-19 rue de la Monnaie, Paris 1, Paris, France
      • Production companies
        • Pierre Grise Productions
        • Théo Films
        • Pandora Filmproduktion
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      • 1 hour 55 minutes
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        • Dolby Digital

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