Comments on: Cannes Review: Leos Carax’s ‘Holy Motors’ Is An Anything Goes Stew Of Big Ideas That Doesn’t Always Work

By: addu

addu — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:32 +0000

Couldn't agree more. Carax is the French James Franco.

By: Milla

Milla — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:32 +0000

Saw this recently and I have to say I absolutely loved it. If you like to be surprised and love tragic/comedic stories performed by the VERY talented Denise Lavant and a great supporting cast esp the gorgeous Edith Scob, if you love movies that push the envelope of imagination without being pretentious, this is your movie. It was funny, touching, wacky and beautiful. Go see it!

By: Brigitte

Brigitte — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:32 +0000

I didn't enjoy this film either and I'm glad to have found this review–at least someone has the guts to stand up & say they didn't think it was all that great. I'm all for wacko films but this one left me cold. A good, balanced, and ultimately honest review. Well done.

By: Nik Grape

Nik Grape — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:32 +0000

I'm sorry to read that you didn't like it Kevin. Holy Motors is getting an incredible amount of buzz and this is, I think, the first really negative review I read. As a big Carax fan, the only positive thing I can take from this is that the movie is open to interpretation and creates a unique spark with each audience member (much like Post Tenebras Lux I imagine) so a negative review like this simply means the spark it made with you personally was insignificant.

By: Petit

Petit — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:32 +0000

This is what happens to american critics that get wasted
drinking cheap drinks at the petit majestic.

They get sloppy and eventually fall into vertigo.
Any strong emotion is too much for the head of the
too tired young man. All they want is to go back home.

Maybe this is not Kevin's case but the sindrome happens over and over.

By: kindred spirit

kindred spirit — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:32 +0000

Anything with Eva Mendes in it is destined to be awful or so bad it's good.

By: SAd

SAd — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:32 +0000

This is what we end having.
Critics that made it two or three times at a European festival
and now they are over art.
A liberal Website supporting
avengers and dizzying challenging work.

By: Mr Anonymous

Mr Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:32 +0000

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! 😀

(Drew over at HitFix LOVED this film!)

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:25:32 +0000

Stop giving middling grades to ambitious films. First it was Like Someone in Love, then it was Post Tenebras Lux, now Holy Motors too? Do you guys like being challenged at all? You can't treat every film like there's some objective measure of perfection that they're failing to attain. In fact one of the most freeing things about cinema is that it doesn't have to "be" anything. There are no standards. It's whatever the artists want it to be (something, going by what others reviews I've read, that Carax is directly engaged in exploring). For all the complaining you guys do about Battleship and other such commercially-minded films, you seem to get awfully lost when three-act structures are abandoned. "welp that was weird" isn't an adequate response to internationally-esteemed entries in the world's foremost film festival, no matter how experimental they get.