#100. Holly Motors
Director/Writer: Leos Carax
Producers: Pierre Grise
Distributor: Rights Available
The Gist: This traces 24 hours in the life of a person who travels between different lives, including that of a murderer, beggar, CEO, monstrous creature and father of a family. Like a lone killer acting in cold blood and going from one hit to the next, he has a completely different identity in each of his intertwining lives. Like in a film-within-a film, he plays different roles… (more)
Cast: Denis Lavant, Kylie Minogue, Michel Piccoli, Edith Scob with a brief appearance from Eva Mendes.
List Worthy Reasons…: The pic above (Denis Lavant aiding an Eva Mendes from a manhole) tells us that Carax appears to have incorporated some narrative and film character elements from his portion of the Carax-Michel Gondry-Bong Joon-ho triptych Tokyo!. In it, Lavant plays some excruciatingly annoying Godzilla-like creature, which wouldn’t be a selling point for this project as it was worst than fingernails on a chalkboard, but we’re curious about how this “meta” film within a film formula might work out. Also worth noting: this is Carax’s first feature film since 1999’s Pola X.
Release Date/Status?: Seeing that Carax has been invited to Cannes for Boy Meets Girl (1984), Pola X and Tokyo!, we expect to see added to the festival’s 2012 slate.
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