Culture Connect Featured Event
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FRENCH CINEMATHEQUE Co-presented by the Alliance Française of Greenwich HOLY MOTORS Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Carte Blanche: FREE | Avon Members & AFG: $6 | Students/Seniors: $8 | Nonmembers: $11 |
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Official selection "A gift for moviegoers... exhilarating." "Narratively unhinged, beautifully shot, and frequently hilarious." "Experimental, funny, deliriously original." ABOUT THE FILM: This unclassifiable, expansive movie from Leos Carax (LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE)—his first feature in 13 years—operates on the exhilarating logic of dreams and emotions. After a prologue in which Carax himself, clad in pajamas, walks through a corridor that leads to a theater full of silent spectators, HOLY MOTORS segues to actor Denis Lavant, Carax’s longtime collaborator, playing a mysterious man named Oscar who inhabits 11 different characters over the course of a single day. This shape-shifter is shuttled from appointment to appointment in Paris in a white-stretch limo driven by the soignée Edith Scob (EYES WITHOUT A FACE); not on the itinerary is an unplanned reunion with Kylie Minogue. To summarize the film any further would be to take away some of its magic; the most accurate précis comes from its own creator, who aptly described Holy Motors after its world premiere in Cannes as "a film about a man and the experience of being alive." In French and English with English subtitles | 116 minutes. |
