Holy Motors

We write about music and videos mostly on here, but the platform remains for other noteworthy pieces art in general.  I've just finished watching Holy Motors and I might be ready to call it 2012's best film.  I still have a couple big ones to get to (namely Amour and Rust & Bone).  It is innovative, creative, bold, flashy, violent, sexy, and terrifying.  Written and directed by Leos Carax & starring Denis Lavant (easily giving the best performance of the year), Holy Motors jumps off the screen into your imagination permanently.  And does so in a way that many of the year's "best" films failed to.  This is something new, something experimental... This is for anyone who finds themselves bored with the conventions of narrative reality in contemporary cinema.  It's in no way a light film... don't watch it without patience and an open mind.  Or watch it to see Eva Mendez and Kylie Monogue get in the cleanest movie of either of their careers.