The soundtrack was very late seventies, early 80s-tastic. But it fitted the athmosphere of the film, so I was okay with it.
Holy Motors
There are lots of films about filmmaking, State and Main, La Nuit Americaine and Living in Oblivion being the most obvious. Then there are films about film as an art and the people who make them, like Hugo Cabret, Sunset Blvd. or A Star is Born. "Holy Motors" by Leos Carax of "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf" fame, opens a third catagory: A Film as a metaphor for the process of world-creating and enacting of people's lives in the medium of film. At least, that's what I think it is about.
Factually, it is a film about a man driving from appointment to appointment in a stretch limo. Only thing is, each of his "appointments" consists of playing a different person: He's a motion capture actor, then an old beggar lady, then a father picking up his teenage daughter from a party. it is weird.
And then he is an accordionist:
This whole thing is so meta I still can't really wrap my head around it, but it definitly is one of the visually most striking films I've seen for a long time. The tracking shots of the sudden musical sequence are eye-wateringly beautiful.