HOLY MOTORS (2012)
Who are you when no one is watching? In a world of personal brands and performed identities, Leos Carax’s delirious masterpiece asks if there’s anything beneath the different roles we play and challenges the cinematic form in the process. Exhilarating, fantastical and straight-up strange – nobody can agree on what it means, which is exactly why you should see it.
With introduction by Leslie Stein, Jungian Analyst and author of The Self in Jungian Psychology: Theory and Clinical Practice (2021, Chiron).
Directed by Leos Carax, France, 2012, 116 mins, MA 15+
Starring: Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer, Eva Mendes, Edith Scob, Kylie Minogue
In French with English subtitles.
Image: courtesy of Icon Film Distribution
WITH INTRODUCTION BY
Les Stein
Les Stein is a New York Jungian Psychoanalyst, now living and practicing in Sydney. He has produced 14 books including The Self in Jungian Psychology: Theory and Clinical Practice (2021), as well as a trilogy of novels on what is required for a person to obtain psychological strength and clarity. The first two have been published in New York and the third book of the series, Character, will be published in November in the U.S. He is also the editor of the soon-to-be-released Integration of Psychedelic Experiences, with essays by 15 psychoanalysts, his chapter is on mystical states.
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