15 Most Groundbreaking Movies Of The Decade (So Far)

9. Holy Motors

What's it about? A year after The Tree Of Life picked up the Palme d'Or, Leos Carax's Holy Motors entered the competition but failed to pick up the top prize. Denis Lavant stars as a strange man who spends the duration of the film taking on a variety of unusual roles as he moves around the city of Paris, with cameras apparently filming his every action. What makes it groundbreaking? If anyone can be said to have made a deliberately confounding yet thoroughly mesmerising movie, Carax is the one. Holy Motors isn't a film you should try and read in a conventional manner - rather, each sequence can be viewed as a comment on the nature of performance, voyeurism and the various archetypes inherent in storytelling, dissected, rearranged and served up in a visual feast. Give in to Holy Motor's weirdness and you're in for a treat.