Holy Motors

"Exhilarating, opaque, heartbreaking and completely bonkers..."

"Only dream logic - give or take pure cinema - can begin to explain the wacky beauty of what goes on here."

"Bold, romantic and hilarious experimentation at its absolute finest."

"It is wayward, kaleidoscopic, black comic and bizarre; there is in it a batsqueak of genius, dishevelment and derangement; it is captivating and compelling."

"Here is a film that is exasperating, frustrating, anarchic and in a constant state of renewal. It's not tame."

"Surreal and often disturbing and sometimes poignant and always mesmerising."

"A dream of the movies that looks like a movie of dreams."

"(A) visionary, jaw-dropping spectacle."

"Holy Motors, fueled by pure feeling, is a dream of a movie you want to get lost in."

"It's the coolest and strangest movie of the year..."

"Despite or perhaps because of the passage of time, Carax has made a film of an extraordinarily youthful vigour."

"Obtuse and preposterous, but never less than riveting."

"Cinema is easy, life is mysterious. Perhaps that's Carax's message. Whatever it it is, he has our attention."

"A wary celebration, a joyful dirge that's served up in concentrated form by a roving band of accordion players."

"This wilfully delirious concoction feels like a guided tour of a cinematic museum that exists only inside Carax’s cranium..."

"Great art is a celebration of the artist and the audience, and shows how the two intertwine into something ineffable yet truly sublime. Holy Motors is great art."