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2023 Full coverage I 2022 Full coverage Festival / Market I 2021 Full coverage / Sample of newsletters ARCHIVES: Video gallery I Image gallery I Conference Future of Cinema in Cannes I PROMOTE YOUR FILM I VIDEO SERVICES IN CANNES Filmfestivals.com has become the number 1 online media on cannes with 1300 articles published for the 3 past editions. 10 newsletters reaching close to 2 M film professionals...Looking back! 65th Cannes Film Festival. 'Holy Motors' (2012)HOLY MOTORS (2012) premiered in competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
HOLY MOTORS: Is it gratuitous shock-value pomp or high surrealistic cinematic genius? You decide… A swarthy dwarfish (though not a dwarf) Parisian, ‘Monsieur Oscar’ (played by Denis Lavant), lives for the night like some kind of vampire or ancient fiend feeding off humanity’s basest Chthonic nature. By day he is a loving father to his teenaged daughter, but by night a creature, monster, stark-raving madman. Driven around in a white limo by an older French woman, Celine, Oscar appears very much like an errant method actor putting on and taking off his masks while getting lost inside each character blurring the lines between what is real and what is mere illusion; after all, who can say? This anti-hero is on a crusade to explore every possible face he can and exorcise his every craving. What and who exactly is Oscar? Perhaps he is a metaphor for all human fear and desire. Or perhaps he is merely desire itself- he stomps around eating flowers voraciously through a Paris graveyard, chases Eva Mendez with a red-haired boner, commits murderous rampage with periodical pauses for sexual acrobats with a Tron-like circus performer and stops for a nostalgic love musical with Kylie Minogue just before she throws herself off a building to a morbid demise. Oh, and did I mention the white limo talks at the end? Whatever Oscar represents, or doesn’t, the film is a lot like life… an enigma impossible to impose definite meaning upon, sans sequence; and while seeming to go somewhere, it often ends up at a standstill, but never ceases to shock and amaze. As a fellow viewer stated: 'I’ve seen this film twice now and I still don’t know what it’s about'.
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Holy Motors Director: Leos Carax Script: Léos Carax Photographer: Caroline Champetier, Yves Cape Montage: Nelly Quettier Sound: Erwan Kerzanet, Katia Boutin, Josefina Rodriguez, Emmanuel Croset Music: Neil Hannon Art Direction: Emmanuelle Cuillery Costumes: Anaïs Romand With: Denis Lavant (Monsieur Oscar), Édith Scob (Céline), Kylie Minogue (Eva/Jean), Eva Mendes (Kay M.), Élise Lhomeau (Léa/Élise), Jeanne Disson (Angèle), Michel Piccoli (the man with the birthmark) 20.03.2013 | Cannes's blog Cat. : Looking back! 65th Cannes Film Festival. 'Holy Motors' (2012) News
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