USA: Eva Mendes hits the red carpet for AFI Fest's premiere of strange and wacky film "Holy Motors"

Record ID: 220929

  • Title: USA: Eva Mendes hits the red carpet for AFI Fest's premiere of strange and wacky film "Holy Motors"
  • Date: 4th November 2012
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 3, 2012) (REUTERS) WIDE OF CARPET EVA MENDES ARRIVING (SOUNDBITE) (English) EVA MENDES, "HOLY MOTORS" CO-STAR, SAYING: "I think shooting in one of my favorite places in the world, Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, filming on a tomb, that tops my list of bizarre things to do." EVA MENDES TALKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (Eng
  • Embargoed: 19th November 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Usa
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA9MNTL1673Q7J2PX3NL0JUTTR1
  • Story Text: Eva Mendes was on the red carpet prior to the "Holy Motors" screening at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Saturday (November 3).
    Cars talk, a man is married to a monkey and Mendes comforts a monster in "Holy Motors." As to the film's meaning, critics struggle to agree.
    Directed by French filmmaker Leos Carax, the story follows Mr. Oscar, played with superhuman energy by Denis Lavant, a man who spends each day living 10 different lives, each mapped out for him in a dossier left in the back seat of the stretch white limousine he travels in. In the morning he is a rich businessman leaving his luxury home for work. Next he dresses up as an old woman beggar on the streets of Paris.
    Oscar's most shocking character is "Monsieur Merde," half-man half-beast who bursts in on a photo shoot at a Paris cemetery with Mendes and carries her to his underground lair where she soothes the naked and aroused monsieur.
    "I think shooting in one of my favorite places in the world, Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, filming on a tomb, that tops my list of bizarre things to do," said Mendes.
    "Holy Motors" hits U.S. theaters on November 9.
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