Best International Feature Leos Carax
For the sheer beauty, originality and breathtaking scope of its cinematic vision.
Silver Hugo
Best Actor Denis Lavant
For breathing life into a character who is alternately tragic, hilarious, shocking, profound, hideous, beautiful, wise - but always human - and, quite simply, unlike anything we''ve ever seen before.
Best Cinematography Yves Cape Caroline Champetier
For images that were achingly beautiful and inventive, and somehow managed to be always perfectly in sync with the confounding universe of the narrative.
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...
Holy Motors is a 2012 French fantasy drama film written and directed by Leos Carax, starring Denis Lavant and Édith Scob. Lavant plays a man who travels between multiple parallel lives. It is Carax''s first feature film since 1999. The film competed for the Palme d''Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2]
Plot
The film opens on a character known only as "Le Dormeur." After waking up one morning, he somehow locates and opens a secret door in his apartment, and wanders into a packed movie house where an audience watches King Vidor''s classic The Crowd, while a young child and a giant dog wander up and down the aisles. Meanwhile, Oscar rides to work in a white limousine driven by his close friend and associate Céline; Oscar''s job, it seems, involves using makeup, elaborate costumes, and props to carry out a number of complex and unusual scenarios. Of these, one has the actor performing an action sequence and simulated sex with an actress on a soundstage while he''s filmed by an off-camera director. Another sequence puts him in a sewer with Monsieur Merde, a character who first appeared in Carax''s segment in the omnibus picture Tokyo!; here, Merde falls in love with a beautiful model, Kay M., who accompanies him on a jaunt through a cemetery. Subsequent episodes cast Oscar in a deathbed melodrama, a gangster film, a musical alongside pop star Kylie Minogue, and much more.[3]
