Holy Motors

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Holy Motors

Released Oct 17, 2012

1h 56m

Fantasy

Drama

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Driven around Paris by a loyal driver (Edith Scob), a mysterious man (Denis Lavant) dresses up in costumes and plays a number of strange, semiscripted roles.

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Mesmerizingly strange and willfully perverse, Holy Motors offers an unforgettable visual feast alongside a spellbinding -- albeit unapologetically challenging -- narrative.

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Robert Levin

Newsday

You'll either run with it or you won't, but you can be sure you've never seen anything quite like it.

Rated: 3/4

Apr 29, 2020

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Ginette Vincendeau

Sight & Sound

The film makes up for... lapses with dazzling moments.

Apr 29, 2020

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Cinema is full, life is empty. Cinema is easy, life is mysterious. Perhaps that's Carax's message. Whatever it is, he has our attention.

Rated: 3/4

Apr 28, 2020

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

If characters and plot are important ingredients for you, then you’ll probably start checking out before the halfway mark.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 21, 2022

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Taylor Baker

Drink in the Movies

Episode 34: Relaxer / A Scanner Darkly / The Beach Bum / Holy Motors

Rated: 94/100

Sep 14, 2021

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Jason Adams

My New Plaid Pants

This is what dream-logic looks like. Holy Motors comes about as close to making me actually feel like I was inside of a dream in anything since Inland Empire.

Rated: A

Jul 6, 2021

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Matt C

Unique, nutsy, desparate, surreal is life, especially when we start changing our character to match every scenario, becomes exhausting does it? Gets more extreme does it? Do you ever feel like you're being watched or simply to voyeur watching a life/style usually an exciting one. This is actually very "entertaining", though movie-people vs film-people will differ greatly (they want the simple answer presented by the end in crayon, & say: ohhh that's why haha, fart, go to bed) I can't understand bad reviews for this film. I'm a lover of a QUESTION MAKING film (as all answers people dogmatically give are bs), plus this challenges if we are doing vs watching/thinking only.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/08/25

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Leaburn O

Felt obvious that this would be a Cannes critics favourite. It is batshit, dark, moody and stylish. It has something to say but it’s not altogether clear what. Mainly though, it just isn’t very entertaining or enjoyable to watch. Watched on DVD.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

10/24/24

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Pantera O

"Your punishment, poor lisa, is to be you" Una obra surrealista de un hombre que tiene 9 citas diferentes, donde interpreta a diferente personas. Existencial. Poética. Sensorial. Una gran serie de metáforas, no muy claras, demaisado vagas. Por otro lado tiene una fantástica fotografía, con paidajes únicos de París, e historias interesantes, entretenidas y hasta divertidas, con buenos diálogo y reflexiones filosóficas. Una exploración del actor, a través de la vida cotidiana. Una reflexión sobre la realidad y el significado de la vida. Una película innovadora, poco convencional, pero igualmente difícil de entender y apreciar. No estoy seguro de haberla digerido bien. Ya la veré otra vez. Vale la pena. "¿Who are you?" Quien sabe si reiremos en la proxima vida. El cine te permite tener múltiples vidas. Técnica: 7.7 Expresión: 8.4 Efecto: 8.2 Experiencia: 7.0 Calificación: 7.8/10

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/13/24

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Jerod S

Guy in a limo drives around and performs different roles around Paris. Not sure how they're connected. Not sure what the point was. Not worth trying to figure out, either.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/21/24

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Audience Member

Holy motors was a surreal experience, much different than anything else I’ve seen. Very original movie that I’d recommend to anyone who enjoys weird, foreign language films. Not quite 5 stars because it did drag on just a bit.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/12/23

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Gbor G

Twisted, in a good way.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/23/24

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Synopsis

Driven around Paris by a loyal driver (Edith Scob), a mysterious man (Denis Lavant) dresses up in costumes and plays a number of strange, semiscripted roles.

Director: Leos Carax
Producer: Martine Marignac
Screenwriter: Leos Carax
Distributor: Indomina
Production Co: Pandora Filmproduktion, Pierre Grise Productions, arte France Cinéma, Théo Films, WDR/Arte
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 17, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 6, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $641.1K
Runtime: 1h 56m
Sound Mix: Dolby
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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