Synopsis
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.
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Cast
- Denis LavantMr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer
- Édith ScobCéline
- Eva MendesKay M
- Kylie MinogueEva Grace
- Élise LhomeauLéa
- Jeanne DissonAngèle
- Michel PiccoliMan with the Wine Stain
- Leos CaraxThe Sleeper / Limousine (voice)
- Nastya Golubeva CaraxLittle Girl
- Reda OumouzouneMo-Cap Acrobat
Recommendations
- 100
Empire
Splashing around in the same mad puddle as Lynch but a good deal funnier, this tale of a man with many faces is an exhilarating, audacious, lunatic rocket-ride. Hop on board. - 100
The Guardian
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. - 100
Village Voice
Unclassifiable, expansive, and breathtaking. - 90
The New York Times
It's a gift for moviegoers to have this much freedom, and exhilarating. In Holy Motors you never know where Mr. Carax will take you and you never know what, exactly, you're to do once you're there. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Holy Motors is typically confounding but on every level that matters a work of unfettered - and liberating - imagination. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Exhilarating, opaque, heartbreaking and completely bonkers – French auteur Leos Carax's so-called comeback film, Holy Motors, is a deliciously preposterous piece of filmmaking that appraises life and death and everything in between, reflected in a funhouse mirror. - 80
Total Film
A surreal head-scratcher that'd make Luis Buñuel smile, it may not be perfectly formed, but there's no denying its fierce originality. - 70
Variety
Audaciously giving itself license to do whatever it wants, Leos Carax's narratively unhinged, beautifully shot and frequently hilarious Holy Motors coheres -- arguably, anyway -- into a vivid jaunt through the auteur's cinematic obsessions.
