Holy Motors

Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavant, the director’s regular alter ego at his most protean here) is ferried about Paris from one appointment to another over the course of a day and night by limousine driver Céline (Edith Scob); each appointment sees him adopt a wildly different guise and form of interaction with others.

At once nostalgic and ferociously forwards-facing, Carax’s ludic, allusion-drenched surrealist fifth feature is, for all that it’s haunted by ghosts of cinema past, a true and refreshing original. With Eva Mendes, Michel Piccoli and, improbably but touchingly, Kylie Minogue.