Monday, December 3, 2012  Film Review: Leos Carax' Holy Motors
It is not an easy task to try to describe Leos Carax' Holy
Motors.  I suppose some would say it is not an easy task to
watch Holy Motors either, or for that matter to understand the
damn thing, but whether one "gets" what Carax, and his muse,
actor Denis Lavant, are trying to do here - and I may be only
partially sure myself - one cannot deny that there is a certain
strangeness about the whole thing that makes it extremely
difficult to ignore.  But then, I do live by the critical creed
set forth by Jonas Mekas, who said, "It is not my business to
tell you what it's about. My business is to get excited about
it, to bring it to your attention. I am a raving maniac of the
cinema."  So let us not even try to describe Carax' quite
batshitcrazy film.  Instead, let me bring it to your attention,
appropriately enough, as a raving maniac of the cinema.
Basically, to toss in just a bit of explanation, the film is
about Oscar, played by the aforementioned