You must watch holy motors twice in order to truly understand it.

As I watched this weird concoction of sounds, camera angles, characters and emotions in the opening I felt weirdly satisfied and very intrigued. The opening is of this unknown character in a locked hotel room trying to find his way out. The bizarre sounds of slopping, crashing, and moving water tries to communicate that they are on a boat, but I think that Leos Carax is saying that this man is in the womb of his mother. His unknown man looks for a way out and opens a new door. As he travels through a flashing corridor (which at this point is him travelling through the cervix) he makes it to the end where another door is opened to a cinema. I feel as though Leos Carax is trying to illustrate that the cinema is a new world that he is being born into, and he has now seen that everyone watches each others actions. In a sense saying that life’s a movie and everyone’s there to watch the cinema screen and enjoy the events that takes place in each individuals life. When he sees this infant walking on the ground floor towards the bright cinema screen it implies that he is this baby, who is intrigued about this life and how everyone acts in films. This really sets the scene and makes the audience focus on the main theme which is acting.

I went into Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012) with no context or any type of description only that this director is known to produce many different genre of films that have ended up doing very well that Cannes Film Festival. As I watched the rest of the film I learnt that its set in the avant-garde of 1920’s Paris, about  a man using his limo to transform into nine different people and act for an agency who gets their employees to fill other individuals spots in life in order to create a happy or devastating event. The films form is very simplistic with the editing and time all in chronological order and with not much pattern or expectations for audience to follow, but the content of the film was rather unique and is shown in very peculiar ways.