Holy Motors

Holy Motors is a 2012 FrancoGerman fantasy drama film written and directed by Leos Carax, starring Denis Lavant and dith Scob. Lavant plays Mr. Oscar, a man not unlike an actor who inhabits several roles, but there are no apparent cameras filming the mans performances. It is Caraxs first feature film since 1999. The film competed for the Palme dOr at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Meanwhile, a man called Oscar rides to work in a white limousine, driven by his close friend and associate Cline. Oscars job involves using makeup, elaborate costumes and props to carry out a number of complex and unusual appointments, sometimes for the service of others, and at other times for seemingly no reason at all. The rest of the film is set in Paris. At his first appointment, Oscar masquerades as an old woman beggar in the street. At the next, Oscar wears a motion capture suit and performs an action sequence and simulated sex with an actress on a soundstage while being directed by an unseen man. At Oscars third appointment, he plays the role of Monsieur Merde, an eccentric and violent redhaired man who kidnaps a beautiful model from her photoshoot in a cemetery. The next scene finds Oscar as a father picking up his daughter from a party in an old red car. The two argue when the daughter reveals that she had spent the party crying in the bathroom instead of socializing. Cline continues to drive Oscar to his appointments.In a little interlude, Oscar performs a short musical piece on accordion with a group of other musicians in a church. In the fifth scene he assumes the role of a Chinese gangster assigned to murder a man who looks identical to him. After he has stabbed the man in the neck and carved scars into his face that match his own, the victim suddenly stabs the gangster in the neck as well. Oscar manages to limp his way back to the limousine, seemingly injured before being seen sitting comfortably inside the limo removing his makeup. A man with a portwine stain on one side of his face is sitting in the limo and discusses Oscars work with him, informing Oscar that others believe he is getting tired. Oscar admits that his business is changing, and that he misses the days when he was aware of cameras. He remains in his profession, though, for the beauty of the act. Later, in what turns out to be the sixth sequence, Oscar abruptly runs from the limo, dons

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