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Critics Consensus: Mesmerizingly strange and willfully perverse, Holy Motors offers an unforgettable visual feast alongside a spellbinding -- albeit unapologetically challenging -- narrative.
Critic Consensus: Mesmerizingly strange and willfully perverse, Holy Motors offers an unforgettable visual feast alongside a spellbinding -- albeit unapologetically challenging -- narrative.
All Critics (145) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (132) | Rotten (13) | DVD (2)
It is never dull.
By the time this film's over, you're shaken, intrigued and reminded that art doesn't need to add up to be entrancing.
Holy Motors is some kind of wonderful.
Audiences who care about character and plot are liable to take the exit to a movie that makes sense.
All this random action, Carax suggests, is for some vast, abstract audience anxious to lose itself in imagined narratives.
This is the kind of it-can-mean-whatever-you-want-it-to-mean art film that I usually run from, but Carax is such a prodigiously gifted mesmerist that, if you give way, you're likely to be enfolded in the film's phantasmagoria.
Holy Motors is near-overflowing with small, enclosed moments of concentrated cinematic brilliance.
Instead of reality underwriting the fiction, the fiction simply loops in its endless operation.
I was perplexed. I scratched my head. But I was never bored. This is a bizarre fantasy in which the director does what the hell he likes, yet it still somehow coheres.
... a constantly surprising delight.
It is this thing -- being alive in the world -- that is precisely what Holy Motors achieves.
From its enigmatic opening scenes, which sends the viewers into a mysterious voyage a la Alice through the looking glass that ends up in a movie theater, Holy Motors (2012) is a celebration of the magic, imagination, and primal power of the movies.
An incredibly absorbing and thought-provoking film that takes us in a mind-boggling journey with a character that drifts from one role to the next in many puzzling rendezvous and identities - a narrative experiment that proves to be fascinating and surprisingly moving.
Super Reviewer
This film is very weird, and I am with the majority in thinking this. The film follows a man as he runs around town in a limousine with his faithful driver, put into different scenes that make no sense when put together, and then goes home. The first scene includes a motion capture simulated sex scene, followed by a blind hooligan kidnapping a model, and an accordion march through a church. There's many more scenes like this, and no, it doesn't make sense altogether. Even the ending doesn't make any sense, and it's the main resolution. The main thing to think about when watching this film is the beauty, the eccentricities in every scene, the amazing music, mood, cinematography. It's just an amazing feat of filmmaking and that is something I am with the majority as well. It's a bit slow and quiet at times, but it's something worth sticking with. Besides that, the performance Denis Lavant is spectacular, queer, awesome, and intriguing, all at once.
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The only "talking cars" movie worse than "Cars 2". Aside from an Andy Serkis-esque lead preformance from the chameleon Denis Lavant, "Holy Motors" is nothing more than pretentious nonsense, pandering to the type of fim geek who attempts to find deeper meaning in randomness. Follow me on Twitter @moviesmarkus
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