ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Actress Eva Mendes was on the red carpet prior to the "Holy Motors" screening at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Saturday (November 3).<br/> <br />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.<br/> <br />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.<br/> <br />As to the film's meaning, critics struggle to agree.<br/> <br />"I think shooting in one of my favourite places in the world, Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, filming on a tomb, that tops my list of bizarre things to do," said Mendes.<br/> <br />"Holy Motors" hits U.S. theatres on November 9.
