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Director: |
Leos Carax |
Writer: |
Leos Carax |
Starring: |
Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue |
Released: |
August 23, 2012 |
Rating: |
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Runtime: |
116 minutes
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Story: |
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 Celine, 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, he's a ninja warrior
transformed by cutting-edge technology into a reptilian sex god. Next he's a
gibberish-spewing troglodyte who kidnaps a fashion model from a photo shoot in
Pere-Lachaise cemetery, ferrying her to his underground lair in the sewers.
Then he's the melancholy father of a teenage daughter, followed by a shadowy
assassin sent to kill his own doppelganger, 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 Oscar's epic journey of the soul is
all of our dreams.
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Cast: |
Denis Lavant
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M. Oscar, Le banquier, La mendiante, L'OS de Motion-Capture, et al |
Edith Scob
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Celine |
Eva Mendes
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Kylie Minogue
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Eva Grace (Jean) |
Elise Lhomeau
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Lea (Elise) |
Jeanne Disson
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Angele |
Michel Piccoli
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L'homme a la tache de vin |
Leos Carax (LC)
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Le dormeur / Voix Limousine |
Nastya Golubeva Carax
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La petite fille |
Reda Oumouzoune
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L'acrobate Mo-Cap |
Zlata
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La cyber-femme |
Geoffrey Carey
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Le photographe / Voix Limousine |
Annabelle Dexter-Jones
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L'assistante photographe |
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