10 Movies Directors Didn't Want You To Understand

Films don't get much stranger or more unforgettable than Leos Carax's Holy Motors, a fantasy-drama following a man (Denis Lavant) who spends an entire day performing a series of elaborate acting routines out in the world.

The reason for this is never really explained, and though some might see it as a metaphor for the life of an actor, Holy Motors is probably best enjoyed as a series of performance pieces all carried out with spectacular gusto by Lavant.

Supporting appearances from Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue only enhance the discomforting sense of strangeness, in a film which quite aptly ends with a garage full of limousines talking to each other about their own existential angst.

The second you give yourself over to its profoundly weird sensory assault, Holy Motors becomes a shining of example of how great films need not be fully comprehended - or even at all, really.