Punk film auteur Leos Carax’s ‘Holy Motors’ screens at DFT

The first feature film in 13 years from France’s Léos Carax (the beguiling Pola X was his last one) is a visionary, sometimes dark, unclassifiable and stunning fantasy set in a modern, dreamlike Paris. Oscar (Denis Lavant, Carax’s alter ego and cast in all but one of his feature films) is a mysterious man who inhabits 11 different characters over the course of a single day and night. Oscar manages to change his physical appearance and his identity as he’s shuttled from appointment to appointment in a white limousine driven by his associate (played by the legendary Edith Scob of Eyes Without a Face).

Holy Motors is recommended for persons 18 and older. In French with English subtitles. It is 115 minutes and screens Friday through Sunday at the Detroit Film Theatre, inside the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., in Midtown’s Cultural Center.