Holy Motors follows Monsieur Oscar, a enigmatic figure who journeys across Paris in a white stretch limousine, transforming into a series of wildly different characters for reasons never fully explained. Director Leos Carax crafts a dreamlike meditation on identity, performance, cinema, and the nature of reality itself. The film is a visually inventive and deeply personal love letter to the art of acting and the dying magic of filmmaking.
Leos Carax films Denis Lavant playing eleven roles in one Paris day as a man whose job is to be the roles. The film is the actor as the film's only continuity.
