Mendes’ French Fantasy Film “Holy Motors” Opens in NYC

Eva Mendes’ latest film is being hailed “a lunatic odyssey” and “completely bonkers” by film critics…

The 38-year-old Cuban American actress stars in writer-director Leos Carax’s French fantasy drama Holy Motors, which opened this week in New York City.

Eva Mendes in Holy Motors

Starring Denis Lavant, the film centers on a strange man who is chauffeured around in a white stretch limo as he travels between multiple parallel lives.

Along with Lavant and Mendes, who plays Kay M., the film stars Edith Scob and Kylie Minogue.

The film competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.