Holy Motors (2012)
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 115m
Director: Leos Carax
Cast: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
Synopsis:
The Director unlocks the wall to his Secret Cinema and the Actor tours the city in his white stretch-limo, a sort of dressing room on wheels, driven by a cinematic icon of movies past. He keeps a series of different 'appointments' in a variety of guises, each having a link with some facet of moviedom.
Review:
The kind of pretentious nonsense that appears strange and wonderful until the viewer takes stock of what he comes away with. True, there are magical moments that are pure cinema, and bits of it are very funny, in a refreshing way from this director, but the attempts to be provocative ultimately prove tiresome and banal. Apparently the fleet of limousines is supposed to represent the carcasses of discarded old movie cameras: slow, bulky and mysterious next to the ubiquitous and all but invisible equivalent of the digital age.
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 115m
Director: Leos Carax
Cast: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
Synopsis:
The Director unlocks the wall to his Secret Cinema and the Actor tours the city in his white stretch-limo, a sort of dressing room on wheels, driven by a cinematic icon of movies past. He keeps a series of different 'appointments' in a variety of guises, each having a link with some facet of moviedom.
Review:
The kind of pretentious nonsense that appears strange and wonderful until the viewer takes stock of what he comes away with. True, there are magical moments that are pure cinema, and bits of it are very funny, in a refreshing way from this director, but the attempts to be provocative ultimately prove tiresome and banal. Apparently the fleet of limousines is supposed to represent the carcasses of discarded old movie cameras: slow, bulky and mysterious next to the ubiquitous and all but invisible equivalent of the digital age.
Country: FR/GER
Technical: col 115m
Director: Leos Carax
Cast: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
Synopsis:
The Director unlocks the wall to his Secret Cinema and the Actor tours the city in his white stretch-limo, a sort of dressing room on wheels, driven by a cinematic icon of movies past. He keeps a series of different 'appointments' in a variety of guises, each having a link with some facet of moviedom.
Review:
The kind of pretentious nonsense that appears strange and wonderful until the viewer takes stock of what he comes away with. True, there are magical moments that are pure cinema, and bits of it are very funny, in a refreshing way from this director, but the attempts to be provocative ultimately prove tiresome and banal. Apparently the fleet of limousines is supposed to represent the carcasses of discarded old movie cameras: slow, bulky and mysterious next to the ubiquitous and all but invisible equivalent of the digital age.