Kylie Minogue sings, an accordian dance sequence, and a limo ride you will never forget. These are but a few elements that make up the completely resplendent and bonkers HOLY MOTORS. And folks, this is a film that has rendered quite a few cinephiles here speechless so you’ll want to make note of this film on your Fall must see lists. Now the US poster for director Léos Carax’s film has debuted!
Here’s the official synopsis:
Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine “appointments,” transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. Fetched in the morning by Céline, his trusty chauffeur on this surreal journey, Oscar begins the day as a captain of industry. Then he becomes a gypsy crone, begging for spare change on a bridge over the Seine. Inside a digital production facility, heʼs a ninja warrior transformed by cuttingedge technology into a reptilian sex god. Next heʼs a gibberish-spewing troglodyte who kidnaps a fashion model from a photo shoot in Père-Lachaise cemetery, ferrying her to his underground lair in the sewers. Then heʼs the melancholy father of a teenage daughter, followed by a shadowy assassin sent to kill his own doppelgänger, a dying old man, and finally a thwarted lover revisiting a flame from his past atop a decaying Right Bank department store next to the Pont-Neuf. Monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, futuristic sex fantasia… HOLY MOTORS is all of these and, then again, none of these. It is a ravishing, shape-shifting, fever dream of becoming, unraveling and starting all over again. From celluloid magic to the digital data stream, Monsieur Oscarʼs epic journey of the soul is all of our dreams.
HOLY MOTORS opens in New York on October 17 and nationally, November 9. You’ll want to mark these dates down as Jacob flipped for it when he saw it at Fantastic Fest earlier this month.
