Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Release: Holy Motors

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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 26, 2013
Price: DVD $19.97, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Indomina/Vivendi

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Denis Lavant embarks on a cinematic journey in Holy Motors.

Denis Lavant (Mister Lonely), Eva Mendes (The Other Guys), Kylie Minogue (Jack & Diane) and Edith Scob (Summer Hours) star in internationally acclaimed French filmmaker Léos Carax’s (The Lovers on the Bridge) 2012 fantasy-drama mash-up movie Holy Motors.

The film’s hard-to-describe, dreamy story has Lavant portraying “Monsieur Oscar,” a man whose mysterious job involves using makeup, elaborate costumes and props to carry out a number of complex and unusual scenarios. As he embarks on a journey through the streets of Paris in a white limousine driven by his associate Céline (Scob), Oscar transforms into a handful of characters for a series of strange “appointments.” Oscar’s various scenarios play out as different film genres–monster movie, film noir, fantasy, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller and even anime.

A true critics’ darling—it received a 90% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 132 published reviews—the unrated Holy Motors played in festivals and theaters around the world, including a limited run in the U.S. in October, 2012.

The film will debut digitally a week prior to the DVD and Blu-ray release  on iTunes (Feb. 19).

Bonus features on the Blu-ray of the foreign film, which is presented in French, English and Chinese with English subtitles, include the featurette “Drive In – The Making of Holy Motors” and an interview with Kylie Minogue, who contributes new music to the production.

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.