Country: France
Year: 2012
Duration: 115'
A white limo drives along the streets of Paris: at the wheel is blond Céline and in the back seat is Monsieurr Oscar. Who is he? He’s a captain of industry, a beggar, a murderer, a father and even a monster, but he’s also more. He can be all these things because that’s what life forces him to be: the luxurious car he is driven around in is his dressing room, and each time he gets out he has a new identity and works from dawn to dusk. But besides this unusual routine, who is Oscar, really? What are his feelings, where is his home, what is his life?
Biography
film director
Léos Carax
Leos Carax (Suresnes, France, 1962) started working at eighteen years of age as a film critic. At the same time, he debuted as a director in 1979 with the short La fille aimée but it was his feature-length Boy Meets Girl that made him well-known, winning the Award of the Youth at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival and participating that same year at the Torino Film Festival. He next directed Bad Blood (1986), which won several awards at the 1986 Berlinale, The Lovers on the Bridge (1991), Pola X (1999), which competed at Cannes, and the episode Merde in Tokyo! (2008), which inspired a character of Holy Motors (2012). This last film, which received much critical praise, won another Award of the Youth at this past Cannes Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
La fille aimée (cm, 1979), Strangulation Blues (cm, 1981), Boy meets girl (1984).
Declaration
film director
“The film is therefore of science fiction in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction, ‘holy motors’ linked together by a common fate and solidarity, slaves to an increasingly virtual world. A world from which visible machines, real experiences and actions are gradually disappearing.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Leos Carax
fotografia/cinematography Caroline Champetier
montaggio/film editing Nelly Quettier
scenografia/production design Florian Sanson
costumi/costume design Anaïs Romand
musica/music Neil Hannon
suono/sound Erwan Kerzanet, Katia Boutin, Josefina Rodriguez, Emmanuel Croset
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Denis Lavant (Monsieur Oscar), Edith Scob (Céline), Eva Mendes (Kay M.), Kylie Minogue (Eva/Jean), Élise Lhomeau (Léa/Élise), Michel Piccoli (l’uomo con la voglia/man with the birthmark), Jeanne Disson (Angèle), Leos Carax (se stesso/himself)
produzione/production Pierre Grise Production, Theo Films, Arte France Cinéma, Pandora Film, WDR/Arte
distribuzione/distribution Movie Inspire
vendita all’estero/world sales Wild Bunch
fotografia/cinematography Caroline Champetier
montaggio/film editing Nelly Quettier
scenografia/production design Florian Sanson
costumi/costume design Anaïs Romand
musica/music Neil Hannon
suono/sound Erwan Kerzanet, Katia Boutin, Josefina Rodriguez, Emmanuel Croset
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Denis Lavant (Monsieur Oscar), Edith Scob (Céline), Eva Mendes (Kay M.), Kylie Minogue (Eva/Jean), Élise Lhomeau (Léa/Élise), Michel Piccoli (l’uomo con la voglia/man with the birthmark), Jeanne Disson (Angèle), Leos Carax (se stesso/himself)
produzione/production Pierre Grise Production, Theo Films, Arte France Cinéma, Pandora Film, WDR/Arte
distribuzione/distribution Movie Inspire
vendita all’estero/world sales Wild Bunch
