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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop  HOLY MOTORS - Believe the hype. I thought this was amazing. An actor guy roves around Paris in a white limo looking for 'scenes' in which he plays various bizarre characters. It's obviously quite 'meta-cinema' on one level, but, being a weird movie freak rather than a cineaste per se, I enjoyed it more on the level of surface effect. But what a surface - I loved the way 'Holy Motors' turns emotionally, from cold strangeness to something altogether more affecting and tender in its latter stages. |
I loved
Holy Motors at the cinema last year, and have since bought the blu. I love how Carax respects his audience enough to allow them to fall into the rhythms of the film, so by the time it slows right down with its more gentle and poignant moments, he already has us in his grasp.
That interlude alone - the church/accordion scene - is my of my favourite scenes in recent years. And the chameleon-like Denis Lavant is just remarkable.