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Holy motors, a film by Leos Carax

Label
Holy motors, a film by Leos Carax
Language
fre
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
OFRB rating: 14A
Main title
Holy motors
Oclc number
824565584
Responsibility statement
a film by Leos Carax
Review
"Only dream logic - give or take pure cinema ? can begin to explain the wacky beauty of what goes on here."--Variety"Here is a film that is exasperating..."--Roger Ebert"This is the most exhilarating cinema ride of 2012."--Toronto Star"A crazy-beautiful reverie about movies, love, and the love of movies..."--Entertainment Weekly"It's an exhilarating trip of movie madness and sadness."--Time Magazine"Holy Motors, fueled by pure feeling, is a dream of a movie you want to get lost in."--Rolling Stone"A dream of the movies that looks like a movie of dreams."--New York Times"Unclassifiable, expansive, and breathtaking?"--Village Voice"A deliciously preposterous piece of filmmaking?"--Hollywood Reporter
Runtime
115
Summary
Monsieur Oscar, a mysterious, shadowy character, spends a day traveling through Paris in a limousine driven by his loyal chauffeur, Celine. During his travel, he journeys from one life to the next, taking on the appearances of a wide variety of characters, including a captain of industry, an assassin, a beggar, a monster, a reptilian sex god, a melancholy father, and a dying old man
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Genre
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