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Stars: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau, Jeanne Disson | Written and Directed by Leos Carax

Some films are not made to be understood the first time you watch them. They are made for you to take away and think over, ponder what exactly they were trying to say, and maybe even take repeat viewings. These films are quite risky in a way because they tend to be looked upon as too artistic to ever be mainstream, or even a hit. Holy Motors is a film that takes a tight rope walk along the fine line between art house and popular culture and begs for you to take the dive and truly try to understand it.

Monsieur Oscar, the star of the piece steps into his white limousine at the of the film and is whisked away from role to role, in one he’s a monstrous tramp like figure,...

Director: Leos Carax Writer: Leos Carax (screenplay) Starring: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Jeanne Disson, Elise Lhomeau Where can you see Eva Mendes and a naked leprechaun with an erection? How about simulated video game sex? Kylie Minogue doing a musical number? Chimpanzees? Yes, Holy Motors, of course. One can see all of the aforementioned wonders and [...]...

Indomina Releasing has unveiled five new clips from Holy Motors, director Leos Carax's drama that expands to several cities nationwide starting today. Denis Lavant stars as Monsieur Oscar, who has nine separate appointments throughout Paris in one day. Little does anyone know, this bizarre man has the ability to transform himself into completely different characters. Take a look at these scenes, then clickHere to see if this critically-acclaimed drama is playing in a theater near you.

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Holy Motors comes to theaters November 16th, 2012 and stars Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau, Jeanne Disson, Michel Piccoli, Leos Carax. The film is directed by Leos Carax.

Following the first trailer that debuted over the weekend, Indomina Releasing has released the first two clips from Holy Motors, which is currently playing in New York City before its national release November 2. Denis Lavant stars as Monsieur Oscar, an unusual man who transforms into nine separate people throughout his day of "appointments" all over Paris. Take a look at these scenes from director Leos Carax's critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller, then clickHere to see if this innovative film will be coming to a theater near you next month.

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Holy Motors was released October 17th, 2012 and stars Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau, Jeanne Disson, Michel Piccoli, Leos Carax. The film is directed by Leos Carax.

One of the most buzzed about films to come out of this year's Fantastic Fest was director Leos Carax's Holy Motors. It is now playing in New York, and will expand to select theaters on November 9th. We have the second trailer for you to check out, which follows a day in the life of Mr. Oscar. As he attends several appointments, things quickly unravel and spiral out of control, abandoning all sense of logic or sanity.

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Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine "appointments," transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. Fetched in the morning by C&#233line, his trusty chauffeur on this surreal journey, Oscar begins the day as a captain of industry. Then he becomes a gypsy crone, begging for spare change on a bridge over the Seine. Inside a digital production facility,...

Weird & wonderful, rich & strange – barking mad, in fact! That’s what critics say about the upcoming Holy Motors movie, which comes from director Leos Carax. But let us see what you think about this film so far! We have another cool trailer for the whole thing, this time much better look at Kylie Minogue and Eva Mendes, as well as the leading stars Denis Lavant and Edith Scob. Completely weird 2-minute video, you’ll see…

The movie centers on Lavant as Monsieur Oscar who, over the course of a single day, travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine appointments, transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop.

Fetched in the morning by Céline, played by Scob, his trusty chauffeur on this surreal journey, Oscar begins the day as a captain of industry.

Then he becomes a gypsy crone, begging for spare change on a bridge over the Seine.

Title: Holy Motors Indomina Pictures Director: Léos Carax Screenwriter: Léos Carax Cast: Denis Lavant, Èdith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau, Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Disson, Léos Carax Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 10/2/12 Opens: October 17, 2012 “Holy Motors” is destined to be the most bizarre movie most of us will see this year, an obvious choice for screening at the New York Film Festival which awards places to the most elite celluloid submitted to the judging panel. Here’s one guarantee: The public’s reaction will have three possibilities: they’ll love it, they’ll hate it, or their opinions will be somewhere between the two extremes. My own view is the [ Read More ]

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Indomina Releasing has debuted the first poster for Holy Motors, director Leos Carax's critically-acclaimed drama that debuts in New York on October 17 before its nationwide release on November 9. Denis Lavant stars as Monsieur Oscar, a man who morphs into different characters during nine different appointments throughout Paris. Check out the one-sheet for this upcoming indie, also starring Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, and Kylie Minogue.

Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine "appointments," transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. Fetched in the morning by C&#233line, his trusty chauffeur on this surreal journey, Oscar begins the day as a captain of industry. Then he becomes a gypsy crone, begging for spare change on a bridge over the Seine. Inside a digital production facility, he&#700s a ninja warrior transformed by cutting edge technology into a reptilian sex god.

After appearing at Cannes to a mixture of raving applause and boos from the audience, director Leos Carax has released another breathtaking poster for his new film Holy Motors.

This new ‘love-it-or-hate-it film’ stars Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Eva Mendes, Elise L’Homeau, Jeanne Disson, Carax himself and Kylie Minogue.

Lavant plays a man who travels between multiple parallel lives. It has received mixed reviews amongst critics and audiences, with The Telegraph asking if it was ‘The most bonkers film ever‘.

Must be worth a look then…

Holy Motors will be released September 28th.

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Tomboy tells the story of 10-year-old Laure (played by the amazing Zo&#233 H&#233ran) who moves to the suburbs and decides to pass as a boy amongst the pack of neighborhood kids. As "Mikael" she catches the attention of leader of the pack Lisa, who becomes smitten with her. Finding resourceful ways to hide her true self,...

Since its prestigious debut as the opening night film of the Berlin Film Festival's Panorama section (where it went on to win the Teddy Award), Writer-director Céline Sciamma's Tomboy has won numerous awards including “Best Feature Film” at the 2011 Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the “Audience Award” for Best Feature at the 2011 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, and the “Jury Prize” for Best Feature at the 2011 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. In addition, the film is nominated for “Outstanding Film - Limited Release” at the 2012 GLAAD Media Awards. Tomboy will debut on DVD in the United States on June 5th courtesy of Wolfe Video. Bonus materials include a behind-the-scenes documentary featuring interviews with the director and cast. We consider Tomboy to be one of the best films about gender identity of recent years, so we jumped at the opportunity when Wolfe asked us to give...

A coming-of-age story about gender identity set in those awkward prepubescent years, Tomboy is a well-intentioned, but slight and forgettable French drama. It’s the story of 10-year-old Laure (Zoe Heran), the new kid in a small town, who with her scrawny physique and cropped hair, passes as a boy among her new peers. At first life is good for Laure, who now goes by “Mikael”. She fits in, excelling at soccer, fighting, and spitting. Her younger sister goes along with the charade, excited about having a tough and protective older “brother”. Suspicions soon arise amongst her new friends and Laure must face the consequences of her deception.

Tomboy does not have much interesting to say about sexuality, or even about adolescence. It won the Teddy Award for the Best Gay or Lesbian film at the Berlin Film Festival yet it’s not at all about budding lesbianism. It’s...

Title: Tomboy Director: Celine Sciamma Starring: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy, Yohan Vero, Noah Vero Humans are inherently social creatures, and the manner in which we each form a perception of our place in the world around us — and how our ego takes shape and form from our id — certainly relates as much to our interactions as any ingrained or telegraphed sense of social acceptance and duty. Capturing the fickle progress of that individual transformation, however, is a difficult task. A tender and perspicacious look at the toddling steps of adolescent character and personality, writer-director Celine’s Sciamma’s French import “Tomboy” assays the gender confusion...

Two feature films into her career, writer-director Céline Sciamma has proven unusually skilled at making short, plot-light movies about budding adolescents discovering themselves. Sciamma’s 2007 film Water Lilies is a lovely, delicate little story about teenage girls exploring their blossoming sexuality, and now Tomboy follows a 10-year-old girl who moves to a new town and is delighted to realize that she can pass as a boy among her new circle of friends. Zoé Héran plays the girl, who impulsively introduces herself as “Mikael” to her pretty new neighbor, Jeanne Disson. Héran and her peers are at ...

Tomboy

Written by Céline Sciamma

Directed by Céline Sciamma

France, 2011

Cannily appearing to de-politicize a thorny issue while actually keeping the ever-present conflicts intact, Céline Sciamma’s sophomore feature Tomboy sensibly and sensitively tackles transphobia and the rigidity of social constructs of sexuality through a carefully observed portrait of childhood awkwardness, suggesting that our greatest struggles as individuals may set in during the period of life most commonly quantified as “innocent.”

Young Zoé Héran, who is present for nearly every frame of Tomboy, stars as Laure, an imaginative and inquisitive youngster who, upon moving to a new neighborhood with her parents and younger sister just a couple of weeks shy of a new schoolyear, decides to present herself to her new peers as Michaël, an energetic, outgoing, sports-loving young boy. Michaël blends in seamlessly enough at first, but soon the burgeoning advances of Lisa (Jeanne Disson) and a variety of...

Tomboy

Written by Céline Sciamma

Directed by Céline Sciamma

France, 2011

Cannily appearing to de-politicize a thorny issue while actually keeping the ever-present conflicts intact, Céline Sciamma’s sophomore feature Tomboy sensibly and sensitively tackles transphobia and the rigidity of social constructs of sexuality through a carefully observed portrait of childhood awkwardness, suggesting that our greatest struggles as individuals may set in during the period of life most commonly quantified as “innocent.”

Young Zoé Héran, who is present for nearly every frame of Tomboy, stars as Laure, an imaginative and inquisitive youngster who, upon moving to a new neighborhood with her parents and younger sister just a couple of weeks shy of a new schoolyear, decides to present herself to her new peers as Michaël, an energetic, outgoing, sports-loving young boy. Michaël blends in seamlessly enough at first, but soon the burgeoning advances of Lisa (Jeanne Disson) and a variety of...

Tomboy

Written and directed by Céline Sciamma

2011, France

Gwyneth Paltrow sported a fake moustache in Shakespeare in Love and Hilary Swank stuffed a sock down her jeans for Boys Don’t Cry. For Laure, the young heroine of Tomboy, it’s a tub of Play-Doh that helps prolong her dream of being one of the boys – at least for the summer.

Laure (Zoé Héran) has recently moved to a new neighbourhood, with her pregnant mum (Sophie Cattani), dad (Mathieu Demy) and younger sister Jeanne (Malonn Lévana). With her short hair, baggy T-shirts and lack of interest in dolls, Laure could pass for a boy. So when one of the local kids Lisa (Jeanne Disson) makes that assumption, Laure is quick to assume the identity of Michael.

Building a compelling drama around what she calls “the story of a lie”, writer/director Céline Sciamma once again shows that she’s well...

A light touch helps this small-scale drama about a young girl arriving in a new town work well

Céline Sciamma last found a UK audience with her 2007 movie Water Lilies, a disturbing drama about tensions among teenagers at a swimming pool. Her new film is a smaller-scale piece, directed with a light touch. Zoé Héran plays Laure, a 10-year-old girl who arrives with her family one summer in a new town. Laure is a tomboy, with short hair and boys' clothes. One local girl, Lisa (Jeanne Disson), likes the look of Laure, but thinks she's a boy; insecure and vulnerable, Laure plays along with the misunderstanding. Laure's younger sister plays along, too, greatly enamoured of the fantasy of a tough, protective elder brother – because Laure becomes a big hit as a boy, good at football, good at fighting. This feels like a literary adaptation, but is in fact an original screenplay.

Director: Céline Sciamma Writer: Céline Sciamma Starring: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy Upon returning from a summer retreat, Laure (Zoé Héran) joins her parents (Sophie Cattani and Mathieu Demy) and six-year-old sister, Jeanne (Malonn Lévana), at their new home. The new neighborhood means many things to Laure, including new friends, a new school, and a new identity. From first glance, Laure’s gender is inconclusive. With her prepubescent, 10-year-old frame and short haircut, Laure can easily pass for a boy. From what we can gather, Laure has been a tomboy for quite a while. Laure prefers to dress like a boy and play with boys and her parents seem too distracted to notice -- Laure’s father is away at work for most of the film and her mother is practically bedridden by pregnancy.

Tomboy is French writer-director Céline Sciamma’s follow-up to the highly praised Water Lilies, and it again follows a confused child discovering her sexuality. This time the narrative centers on Laure (Zoé Héran), a 10-year-old tomboy. When she moves to a new neighbourhood with her parents, she engages in a gender confused role-play in which she pretends to be a boy to make new friends, not realising the hurt she’s causing along the way.

On the surface, Tomboy may seem like another film about a lonely child trying to fit in, but it’s a really rather intricate and dramatically insightful exploration into how, and more importantly why, one child in particular feels the need to invert their own identity to find acceptance in society or even within themselves.

Instead of launching in at the deep end, Sciamma opts for a more laid back and soulful approach, letting Laure...

The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie as the opening night film for the 2011 festival.

The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.

The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.

"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...