Holy Motors

Friday, August 1 - Thursday, August 7, 2025

SHOWTIMES AT IFC CENTER

In the performance(s) of a lifetime, regular Carax collaborator Denis Lavant is an amorphous Actor on a chameleonic mission to inhabit a variety of public roles: a bag lady, an assassin, a sewer-dwelling freakazoid, a heated lover and much more. Chauffeured around Paris by Edith Scob (EYES WITHOUT A FACE), Lavant commits to each character so thoroughly, and engages you so quickly with each swap that it’s impossible to predict what comes next. Essential 21st-century viewing.

“Nothing makes ‘sense’ in this crazy-beautiful reverie about movies, love and the love of movies…[a]nd yet everything is exactly as it should be.” — Entertainment Weekly

Screening as part of Leos Carax: Modern Loves

  • Country France
  • Language French with English subtitles and English
  • Year 2012
  • Running Time 115 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor AGFA
  • Director Leos Carax
  • Cast Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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