Holy Motors - by Leos Carax (2012)

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Holy Motors - by Leos Carax (2012)

From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man…

The film opens on a character known only as "Le Dormeur." After waking up one morning, he somehow locates and opens a secret door in his apartment, and wanders into a packed movie house where an audience watches King Vidor's classic The Crowd and a giant dog wanders up and down the aisles. Meanwhile, Oscar rides to work in a white limousine driven by his close friend and associate Céline; Oscar's job, it seems, involves using makeup, elaborate costumes, and props to carry out a number of complex and unusual scenarios. Of these, one has the actor performing an action sequence and simulated sex with an actress on a soundstage while he's filmed by an off-camera director. Another sequence puts him in a sewer with Monsieur Merde, a character who first appeared in Carax's segment in the omnibus picture Tokyo!; here, Merde falls in love with a beautiful model, Kay M., who accompanies him on a jaunt through a cemetery. Subsequent episodes cast Oscar in a deathbed melodrama, a gangster film, a musical alongside pop star Kylie Minogue, and much more.

De l'aube a la nuit, quelques heures dans l'existence de Monsieur Oscar, un etre qui voyage de vie en vie. Tour a tour grand patron, meurtrier, mendiante, creature monstrueuse, pere de famille… M. Oscar semble jouer des roles, plongeant en chacun tout entier - mais ou sont les cameras ? Il est seul, uniquement accompagne de Celine, longue dame blonde aux commandes de l'immense machine qui le transporte dans Paris et autour. Tel un tueur consciencieux allant de gage en gage. A la poursuite de la beaute du geste. Du moteur de l'action. Des femmes et des fantomes de sa vie. Mais ou est sa maison, sa famille, son repos…

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