The first lavish, in-person film festival premiere since the start of the coronavirus pandemic left critics divided — a welcome return to the relative normalcy that marked life before Covid-19.
On Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival officially kicked off with the debut of the Leos Carax film “Annette,” starring two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver and former Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and featuring original music from the band Sparks. Set to premiere in theaters on August 6 before a streaming release on Amazon Prime Video on August 20, the musical focuses on the star-crossed relationship between a bitter stand-up comedian (Driver) and an acclaimed soprano (Cotillard) and leans heavily on the magical realism for which Carax (whose last film was 2011’s “Holy Motors”) is known.
“Carax has directed just six movies in nearly 40 years, and ‘Annette’ is the latest proof why: Each one turns on such an intense burst of aesthetic desire that it...
On Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival officially kicked off with the debut of the Leos Carax film “Annette,” starring two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver and former Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and featuring original music from the band Sparks. Set to premiere in theaters on August 6 before a streaming release on Amazon Prime Video on August 20, the musical focuses on the star-crossed relationship between a bitter stand-up comedian (Driver) and an acclaimed soprano (Cotillard) and leans heavily on the magical realism for which Carax (whose last film was 2011’s “Holy Motors”) is known.
“Carax has directed just six movies in nearly 40 years, and ‘Annette’ is the latest proof why: Each one turns on such an intense burst of aesthetic desire that it...
- 7/7/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
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