Holy Motors

Shape-shifting tour de force. Oscar embodies 12 different roles. Among the identities Oscar assumes are beggar, hitman, kidnapper. Won over 30 international awards. Denis Lavant has starred in all of Carax' features except “Pola X” as characters named Alex, or here Oscar, all anagrams of Carax' real name Alexandre Christophe Dupont. In HOLY MOTORS, Lavant tops his previous showstopping performances with a shape-shifting tour de force. Oscar embodies 12 different roles in the course of one day.

Keywords

  • Arthouse
  • Location: Paris
  • Just released
  • Sebastian Urzendowsky
  • Art
  • Black Comedy
  • identity
  • psychology
  • quirky

Actors

  • Denis Lavant
  • Édith Scob
  • Eva Mendes
  • Kylie Minogue
  • Élise L'Homeau
  • Jeanne Disson
  • Michel Piccoli
  • Leos Carax

Director

  • Leos Carax

Drama, Romance

1h 51min

16 FSK

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France
Germany
2012
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the mysterious life of a mystical man called Monsieur Oscar.

From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the mysterious life of a mystical man called Monsieur Oscar.


Shape-shifting tour de force. Oscar embodies 12 different roles. Among the identities Oscar assumes are beggar, hitman, kidnapper. Won over 30 international awards.


Denis Lavant has starred in all of Carax' features except “Pola X” as characters named Alex, or here Oscar, all anagrams of Carax' real name Alexandre Christophe Dupont. In HOLY MOTORS, Lavant tops his previous showstopping performances with a shape-shifting tour de force. Oscar embodies 12 different roles in the course of one day.

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Cast & Crew