Review of Holy Motors (2012) by Nate W — 06 Dec 2012

I try to be as open-minded as I can when it comes to art films, and enthusiastic reviews for Leos Carax's absurdist genre mashup Holy Motors had my hopes up, but I gotta confess: this film lost me.

It goes without saying that I just didn't get it, but, I guess for me at least, it turns out there is such a thing "too weird". It seems like the sort of surrealist art film that a number of high-minded critics will love defending simply because it's so inexplicable.

If you're able to turn off the rational part of your brain and just enjoy its mad collage of sights and sounds, then more power to you. If, like me, you're one of those people who like their movies to be, y'know, about something, you'll find no satisfaction here except for isolated amusements among its endless parade of non sequitur film making.

Does that make me a simpleton? Probably, but I know what I like, and this one is not my cuppa tea.