Holy Motors: Kylie Minogue Charms Critics In New Art-House Movie

27 September 2012

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Holy Motors: Kylie Minogue Charms Critics In New Art-House Movie

Kylie Minogues new movie Holy Motors has impressed the critics. Its been a long time since the Aussie pop star ventured in the word of movies but with this art-house offering, directed by Leos Carax, she seems to have done herself proud. Its an unusual film, seemingly with little in the way of a fixed narrative structure, but thats part of its off-beat charm.

The Telegraph review reveals that Kylies starring moment, though brief, is a highlight: Kylie Minogue, memorably, singing an ex-lovers torch song along the dusty walkways of a derelict department store. Were left with a vast amount to puzzle over and process. One things for sure: you may struggle to wrest unified meaning out of this entirely irreducible movie, but like Kylies other featured song, you cant get it out of your head. Equally, The Guardian describes Kylie Minogues performance in Holy Motors as stylish yet gentle. The New Statesman review does a better job of un-ravelling the meaning of Holy Motors by explaining the central enigma of Holy Motors rests on where life ends and performance begins, or whether the distinction is irrelevant.

Also starring Eva Mendes and Denis Lavant, Holy Motors may seem like a peculiarly avant-garde excursion for Kylie but she seems quite at home in front of the camera and look relaxed, though evidently excited at the movies recent London premiere, where she revealed that she couldnt not do t! he film.

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