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Nov 7, 2012 · M. Oscar's car upstages the limousine in David Cronenberg's " Cosmopolis ," and the journeys of both cars seem to be odysseys through their cities, for purposes not very clear to the audience. "Holy Motors" is the more entertaining and funny of the two, although some parts are not funny at all, and many laughs are of disbelief or incredulity ...
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Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy,...
- Cosmopolis
"Cosmopolis" is a flawlessly directed film about enigmatic...
- Mon Oncle
- What Happens in Holy Motors’ Ending?
- Who Really Is Mr. Oscar?
- What Do The Limousines represent?
- The Real Meaning of Holy Motors’ Ending
Throughout Holy Motors, Mr. Oscar is given a series of "appointments" that force him to adopt a new personality and fulfill his client’s demands. These vary from intense grief counseling to murdering people in cold blood. Mr. Oscar apparently has nine appointments scheduled for the day, but when his workday is finally over, Holy Motors shows him en...
The real identity of Mr. Oscar is essentially a mystery throughout the entire movie. The only time that Holy Motors' audience gets a true look at the man behind the mask is when he’s traveling between appointments in the limousine. Themes involving identity occur throughout Leos Carax’s filmography (including the Adam Driver movie Annette), but Hol...
Holy Motors’ cars are an extremely recognizable feature of the movie, particularly in its final scene. After driving into the garage that gives the movie its title, Mr. Oscar’s limousine starts having a conversation with others around it. It’s an incredibly bold and fascinating way to close the story, but by presenting these limousines as living cr...
Above all, Holy Motors is a surreal movieabout how appearances and reality are rarely the same. Though people like to believe that their life is one constant existence, Leos Carax suggests that as they journey through different stages of being, they change so drastically that there’s eventually no trace of their original selves left. It’s a fascina...
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Oct 15, 2012 · Carax’s most cryptically provocative achievement, “Holy Motors” is scheduled to hit New York theaters October 17, followed by a wider release in November.
Oct 16, 2012 · Oct. 16, 2012. “Holy Motors,” from the French filmmaker Leos Carax, is a dream of the movies that looks like a movie of dreams. It is a reverie that begins, appropriately, with a seated ...
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Oct 14, 2012 · It’s apt that “Holy Motors” tells the story of an actor. I remember an interview from decades ago in which Carax—one of the meteoric geniuses of the modern cinema, whose second feature ...
Holy Motors is a 2012 surrealist fantasy drama film written and directed by Leos Carax and starring Denis Lavant and Édith Scob.Lavant plays Mr. Oscar, a man who appears to have a job as an actor, as he is seen dressing up in different costumes and performing various roles in several locations around Paris over the course of a day, though no cameras or audiences are ever seen around him.
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Oct 20, 2016 · I look at the parallels between life and cinema in Leos Carax's 2012 experimental film Holy Motors, exploring the themes of existentialism and the omniscient...
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