Screen/Society--Tournees French Film Festival--"Holy Motors"

Monday, September 16, 2013 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Screen/Society--Tournees French Film Festival--"Holy Motors"

Film Screening:

 

Holy Motors
(Léos Carax, 2012, 116 min, France/Germany, in English and French, Chinese, and Merdogon with English subtitles, Color, DVD)

Join Monsieur Oscar on his rollicking, soulful journey by limousine through the streets of Paris as he transforms into multiple characters for a series of mysterious "appointments." Melding monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, anime, Léos Carax's mirthful, mind-bending masterwork is a ravishing fever dream of becoming, unraveling and starting all over again.

From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man... He seems to be playing roles, plunging headlong into each part - but where are the cameras? Monsieur Oscar is alone, accompanied only by Céline, the slender blonde woman behind the wheel of the vast engine that transports him through and around Paris. He's like a conscientious assassin moving from hit to hit. In pursuit of the beautiful gesture, the mysterious driving force, the women and the ghosts of past lives. But where is his true home, his family, his rest?

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and the Department of Romance Studies. Made possible by support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the French Ministry of Culture (CNC), the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation, and highbrow entertainment.

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