HOLY MOTORS

You think you've seen crazy lately? (Cloud Atlas, say?) Well, if you haven't seen HOLY MOTORS you simply haven't lived. In a year that has given us such fine fantastic films as Moonrise Kingdom, Robot and Frank, Safety Not Guaranteed and, with reservations, Cloud Atlas and Prometheus, we now get this utterly demented French film. To describe it is difficult: essentially it concerns a rich man (Denis Lavant) who is driven in a stretch limo around Paris, donning various disguises and interacting with a variety of people. (His chauffeur is played by Edith Scob, who played the scarred daughter in Franju's classic Eyes Without a Face, and Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue are around for the ride as well..)

Let's just say things get out of hand.

It's like David Lynch on Laudinum crossed with Fellini and a good deal of Buñuel thrown in for good measure. It could have stood losing fifteen minutes, but nevertheless this is an instant classic. Various of the usual suspects- Dean, Josh, Matt,oink, Scooper- ought to catch this one while it's in your local theater, 'cause it's too looney to hang around for long.
Edited by Shaded Dogfood - 12/5/12 at 7:14am

Worchestershire sauce goes well with foot.

Nobody wants to pull the trigger, to mix a metaphor, and go see this in the theater. It's stunningly, beautifully photographed, and has quite an impact on the big screen.

I guess most of the moviegoing public would prefer to go see The Hobbit, which looks strangely overblown and rather lame. At least to me.

HOLY MOTORS is frequently a pretty twisted affair. But it's certainly not the same ofd stuff reworked by people whose only frame of reference is American films made within the last thirty years.

The Hobbit hasn't gotten very sympathetic treatment from rotten tomatoes critics. Jackson has come to firmly believe that more is more in each and every situation. You would have thought he would have learned something from King Kong. And I loved the trilogy initially, but as the years go by I find it more and more of a chore to revisit it.