There is some wild cinema playing in the theaters right now, from the big-star, big-money extravaganza that is Cloud Atlas (Tom Hanks! Halle Berry!) to the no-money, odd-star meta-film weirdness (Kylie Minogue?) that is Holy Motors:

Are the movies life or is a life a movie? There are few more tedious questions a film night ask. Still, Léos Carax’s new movie asks it in a way that leaves open a range of answers, its focus on the how the question might be posed and whom it might address. Holy Motors may even be proposing that the line between life and movies has dissolved to the point of being academic. And it may be saying the life has become such a production—such a staged production—that it might as well be a movie…

Holy Motors is playing now in very limited release; make sure to check it out. My full review is at PopMatters.

You can see the trailer here: