Synopsis
Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine "appointments," transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. Fetched in the morning by Céline, his trusty chauffeur on this surreal journey, Oscar begins the day as a captain of industry. Then he becomes a gypsy crone, begging for spare change on a bridge over the Seine. Inside a digital production facility, heʼs a ninja warrior transformed by cutting edge technology into a reptilian sex god. Next he's a gibberish-spewing troglodyte who kidnaps a fashion model from a photo shoot in Père-Lachaise cemetery, ferrying her to his underground lair in the sewers. Then he's the melancholy father of a teenage daughter, followed by a shadowy assassin sent to kill his own doppelgänger, a dying old man, and finally a thwarted lover revisiting a flame from his past atop a decaying Right Bank department store next to the Pont-Neuf. Monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, futuristic sex fantasia… HOLY MOTORS is all of these and, then again, none of these. It is a ravishing, shape-shifting, fever dream of becoming, unraveling and starting all over again. From celluloid magic to the digital data stream, Monsieur Oscarʼs epic journey of the soul is all of our dreams.
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Movie Details
Production Budget: | $4,000,000 |
Denmark Releases: | November 15th, 2012 (Wide) |
Video Release: | February 26th, 2013 by Indomina Releasing |
MPAA Rating: | Not Rated |
Running Time: | 116 minutes |
Keywords: | Same Actor, Multiple Roles, Avant Garde, Unnamed Character |
Source: | Original Screenplay |
Genre: | Drama |
Production Method: | Live Action |
Creative Type: | Science Fiction |
Production/Financing Companies: | Martine Marignac, Maurice Tinchant, Albert Prevost, Pierre Grise Productions, Theo Films, ARTE France, Pandora Filmproduktion, WDR/Arte, Canal Plus, Le Centre National du Cinema et de L'Image |
Production Countries: | France, Germany |
Languages: | English, French |