By: juv3nal
Holy Motors is amazing. If you have the chance to see it, you absolutely should. So many charming details that I want to call out but will refrain from doing so not because they are spoilers in the...
View ArticleBy: nathancaswell
It's a very funny film, to be sure, but there is also an undercurrent of sad loneliness to it. A sense of the pointlessness of everything. If you do a little reading about some tragedies in Leos...
View ArticleBy: Damienmce
Ha, a youtube Lavant gorge just revealed he was the also the crazy guy from the UNKLE/Thom Yorke 'Rabbit In Your Headlights' video
View ArticleBy: Rory Marinich
I saw it at the Philadelphia Film Festival, and just saw it again yesterday. The first time we had a great audience, lots of laughter, everybody having a good time. Yesterday the audience was quiet and...
View ArticleBy: pravit
I will never forget Denis Lavant's spasmodic thrashing dance at the end of Beau Travail. So much raw feeling, so much existential angst, so much... I don't even know how to put it into words. Just...
View ArticleBy: egypturnash
I saw Holy Motors on a total whim, thanks to having an art-house theatre four blocks away from me that I pass all the time. And I am super glad I did, because it was one of the most compelling...
View ArticleBy: steganographia
This movie is fucking crazy in a life-affirming, thought-provoking way, in the best tradition of Jodorowsky and Has and Denis Lavant should be given every award extant.
View ArticleBy: Sokka shot first
Goddamn, I don't know anything about the film but now I want to see it, just based on that astounding video. I said goddamn.
View ArticleBy: naju
Yes, this movie was mesmerizing, confounding, brilliant. Best movie of 2012, indeed. See it on a big screen if you can, as soon as possible.
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The French actor Denis Lavant has done some incredible things. In his latest film, Holy Motors, he plays eleven different roles, including The Banker, The Beggar Woman, the Motion-Capture Specialist,...
View ArticleBy: Lorin
After reading some of the glowing comments here I was prepared to be disappointed, but I wasn't at all. I've seen plenty of movies - certainly plenty of weird art movies - but I'm not really a film...
View ArticleBy: desuetude
I thought that some of the moments were brilliant. But I was going in expecting to love it as a film, and was disappointed to conclude that for me it didn't quite work. I'm not someone who wants to see...
View ArticleBy: Mothlight
Ninebelow, the film is out in France on DVD and BD and critics' screeners have been circulating in the U.S., so I'm thinking the rights holders are not as likely to go after the YouTube uploaders as...
View ArticleBy: ninebelow
I saw it during its brief London run. Extremely enjoyably mad and I wish more films like it were made but it is wild, wonderful mess rather than a masterpiece. And the entracte is the best bit. I...
View ArticleBy: MuffinMan
This movie is rubbish. And by rubbish, I mean that I saw the trailer at my local arthouse cinema, got very excited and went the next week onto their website to see when it was playing, and found it had...
View ArticleBy: muckster
Fantastic movie. Thanks for finding the Entracte. For those who really want to dig in, here are three round-ups of reviews at Fandor: Cannes, NYFF, Round 3.
View ArticleBy: justkevin
The trailer was intriguing enough to get me to see it. There were several segments I really liked, including Entracte and the cemetery model shoot, but overall felt let down. There's essentially no...
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