Trailer: Kylie Minogue Co-Stars In Crazy Cannes Entry

Could Holy Motors signal the Kylie Minogue acting revival no one who’s watched Bio-Dome saw coming? The French drama, written and directed by Leos Carax (The Lovers On The Bridge), is in competition for the Cannes Film Festival‘s top prize, the Palme D’or, screened at the festival over night and features our own Kylie Minogue in a supporting role as a suicidal art hostess.

Early reviews of the film have described it as “a deliciously preposterous piece of filmmaking” by The Hollywood Reporter, “batshit crazy” by IndieWire and The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw gave it five out of five stars and praised it as “a butterfly that breaks the wheel of convention.”

And the sex scenes are simulated in motion-capture spandex unitards.

The movie stars fabulous character actor and long-time Carax collaborator Denis Lavant as well as Edith Scob and a small role by Eva Mendes. The trailer looks suitably “batshit crazy” in accordance with the reviews. Take a look…

Full synopsis:
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man…

He seems to be playing roles, plunging headlong into each part – but where are the cameras?

Monsieur Oscar is alone, accompanied only by Céline, the slender blonde woman behind the wheel of the vast engine that transports him through and around Paris. He¹s like a conscientious assassin moving from hit to hit. In pursuit of the beautiful gesture, the mysterious driving force, the women and the ghosts of past lives.

But where is his true home, his family, his rest?

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