Oscar’s day is filled with going back and forth between several lives. He is at the top of his industry, an assassin, a beggar and a monster and simultaneously a loving husband and father. He is accompanied only by Celine, his limo driver who takes him to all corners of Paris. What is his true home; who is his family? The film “opens” with Carax waking up from a dream and looking down upon the theater. It’s a shot that is filled with a thousand emotions. From this moment forward, we watch the filmmaker’s alter ego Denis Lavant play out the nine transformations of Oscar, thus facing the true portrait of a modern man. As always, his performance is almost lethal in intensity. There is significance in revisiting Carax and Lavant’s cinematic journey via the parallel realities and the episodes that take place on the other side. The director’s latest film in 13 years after <Pola X>(1999) is filled with scenes that will satisfy the senses and leave an imprint in the psyche. (RHEE, Soue-won)