Holy Motors

France, 2012. Director Leos Carax. 116min.

Carax’s fantastically bizarre drama follows its protagonist, Mr Oscar, through a single busy workday in Paris. As he is ferried around by his chauffeur from one ‘appointment’ to another, he undergoes a series of radical transformations, his white stretch limousine becoming a dressing room where new costumes and make-up are applied. A meditation on the manufacture of identity in an age of modern media, each costume triggers a different scenario, from the abject, to the sentimental, to the horrific.

With Denis Lavant, Edith Scob and Eva Mendes.
Costumes by Anaïs Romand.

Past screenings

Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream – London
Saturday 25 March 2017, 16:00 | Barbican

Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream – New York
Friday 13 April 2018, 19:00 | Museum of the Moving Image