Holy Motors

You'll either run with it or you won't, but you can be sure you've never seen anything quite like it.

The film makes up for... lapses with dazzling moments.

Cinema is full, life is empty. Cinema is easy, life is mysterious. Perhaps that's Carax's message. Whatever it is, he has our attention.

As wild and wayward as Carax's vision might appear... it touches recognisable human experience at enough points to sustain an emotional connection.

These images and sounds that reveal the mind in matter and the soul in bodies suggest Carax's ultimate definition of the cinema, and it's one of the best and grandest that a movie has ever offered.

Surreal and often disturbing and sometimes poignant and always mesmerizing. Mission accomplished.

If characters and plot are important ingredients for you, then you’ll probably start checking out before the halfway mark.

Episode 34: Relaxer / A Scanner Darkly / The Beach Bum / Holy Motors

This is what dream-logic looks like. Holy Motors comes about as close to making me actually feel like I was inside of a dream in anything since Inland Empire.

I'm pretty sure I won't see anything more audacious this year than Leos Carax's self reflexive, funny, goofy and touching ode to cinema.