Location: Cinestudio (France, 2012) Written and directed by Leos Carax. Cast: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Kylie Minogue, Eva Mendes, Michel Piccoli. Where to begin in describing the plot of Leos Carax’s new film, praised by Slate’s Dana Stevens as “unholy magic, a movie that’s beyond weird, and beyond beautiful?” It opens with an audience in a movie theater, fast asleep, and moves on to a mesmerizing narrative that follows the transformation of one actor (the amazing Denis Lavant) into 11 different characters: Parisian crone, lover, kidnapper (of Eva Mendes), and singer in the eerie abandoned department store, Samaritaine. Is he an actor, changing into costumes in the back of his limo, or an elusive shape-shifter, conjuring up enchantment in the City of Light? Don’t miss this visual tour-de-force by the director of The Lovers on the Bridge. “[A] crazy-beautiful reverie about movies, love, the love of movies, and the inevitability of human melancholy.” - Lisa Schwatzbaum, Entertainment Weekly. 115 min. http://holymotorsfilm.com/