Holy Motors

by Pier Marton | Dec 4, 2012 | France, Humor, Review, Spectacle, STL

My short review:
‘Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be at all.’ André Breton.
CAUTION: This film, a delirious RIFF around Hollywood’s subconscious, will not increase your “joie de vivre!”
Like with Buñuel and Dali’s unforgettable collaboration, “the eye” (here, Monsieur Oscar’s) is the starting point, the engine for a whole industry manufacturing role after role for the enjoyment of those watching in theaters, mesmerized and paralyzed….
Who said films should be a pleasurable experience? Maybe it is time to wiggle in and out of our comfort zone?
By Carax, the same filmmaker who created the visionary masterpiece, “Lovers on the Bridge.” With his favorite actor, Denis Lavant, and the legendary Edith Scob of “Eyes Without a Face” by Franju. —> A

The film’s English Website

Interview of Leos Carax by Amy Taubin:

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus