It was announced in November 2016 that Leos Carax was set to make his English language film debut, with Adam Driver, Rooney Mara and Rihanna in talks to star in the film. Filming was slated to begin in Spring 2017. In March 2017, Amazon Studios acquired the film; however, Mara and Rihanna weren't involved in the project. In May, Michelle Williams was cast to replace Mara, with filming now slated to begin in July. Production on the film stalled, with screenwriters Ron and Russell Mael attributing the delay to Driver's commitments to Star Wars. Filming was moved to begin in Summer 2019.
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Annette (Cannes Edition - Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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- 1 Sparks, Adam Driver & Marion CotillardSo May We Start (feat. Simon Helberg) [From "Annette"] 3:44
- 2 Sparks & Marion CotillardTrue Love Always Finds a Way 1:26
- 3 Sparks, Adam Driver & Marion CotillardWe Love Each Other So Much (From "Annette") 3:33
- 4 Simon HelbergI'm an Accompanist 1:24
- 5 Marion Cotillard & Catherine TrottmannAria (The Forest) 3:17
- 6 Sparks, Adam Driver & Marion CotillardShe's Out of this World! 2:23
- 7 Sparks & Six WomenSix Women Have Come Forward 2:04
- 8 Sparks & Adam DriverYou Used to Laugh 2:14
- 9 Marion CotillardGirl From the Middle of Nowhere 2:57
- 10 Adam Driver & Marion CotillardLet's Waltz in the Storm! 3:33
- 11 Adam Driver, Hebe Griffiths & Marion CotillardWe've Washed Ashore - Baby Aria (The Moon) - I Will Haunt You, Henry [feat. Catherine Trottmann] 4:49
- 12 Adam Driver & Wim OpbrouckPremiere Performance of Baby Annette 2:13
- 13 Adam DriverAll the Girls 1:19
- 14 Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard & Catherine TrottmannStepping Back in Time 2:05
- 15 Adam Driver & Devyn McDowellSympathy for the Abyss 3:52
Annette
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A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 57
For those seeking surprises, spectacle, and shadows, Annette is a marvel like no other.
At the heart of its swirling strangeness lies something of real truth and beauty…
Carax and Sparks have given us a commendably dense, complex and beautifully acted production. It may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but&n...
Maybe the most inexplicable thing among the movie’s many inexplicabilities is the near-complete waste it makes of an actress as gifted as Cot...
The thing that eludes Mr. Carax – as Annette so amply and painfully demonstrates – is balance.
Whatever its intentions, Annette is remarkable. It’s an exhilarating collision of cinema, live concerts, stage shows, and celebrity culture...
This thing called "Annette" has a way of taking up residence in your mind, whether you like it or not. If you’re even the slightest bit...
Carax blurs the lines between reality and fiction to the point where it’s unclear what is honest and what is make-believe. But just try takin...
Still, it’s early days, and, despite its imperfections this dark and unusual film perfectly reflects these dark and unusual times.
In the absence of Carax’s typically uninhibited imagination and frank confrontation with his performers, "Annette" stops short of experience...
[I]n this particular cocktail, Carax is boiling lead to Sparks' soda-pop fizz, sucking all the fun from the root-beer float.
Clearly Annette is aiming for something surreal, thought-provoking, sexually intense, and tantalizingly dangerous. But I don’t think it...
At a time when so many movies feel like cookie-cutter representations of better past tellings, there’s more than a little virtue of...
A grandiose melodrama in which everyone involved recognizes exactly what the material demands and goes right after it.
Ultimately, whether you enjoy Annette will depend on your tolerance for films that never ask you to care. I’m upset I didn’t like...
Leos Carax’s movie is an idiosyncratic showcase for an unlikely, idiosyncratic star in Adam Driver…
[T]he ultimate problem with this flamboyant, yet oddly oppressive-feeling film is Carax’s bleakly Romantic world view – even working wit...
Overheated and way too full of itself, the Sparks Brothers' ambitious but lame rock opera gets old fast.
Perhaps the puppet Annette should be your bellwether: Either she remains as creepy as she sounds or she blinks her way into your heart. If it&rsquo...
Annette isn’t the most accessible movie for many audiences, especially if they’re not attuned to the melodrama of rock operas. But even...
In its mix of angsty formalism and sing-along fun, Annette may be the closest that musical cinema has come to when Brecht and Weill put a knif...
It’s daring, original and heroically odd, so it has the right to a few flaws. Failing through ambition is better than its alternative.
The film’s tension between sincerity and falsity is nonstop palpable; virtually every scene threatens to collapse and implode due to the grav...
However sloppy its execution, this is a go-for-broke attempt at breaking and then reassembling the form.
Some will be enchanted and admire its riskiness; others will be exasperated and bored to the backteeth. But that does not make it good.
Whatever the movie wants to convey about the tortured nature of love, fame, and the toll parenthood can exact is as muddled as lyrics that keep rep...
Not even a revved-up Driver or songs by the cult art-pop group Sparks can lift the film to its lofty aims.
An anti La La Land with dashes of Pinocchio, Annette is a fitting curtain-raiser to a Cannes like no other.
The musical format proves a natural fit for Leos Carax’s love of the visual fantasies created by the cinema’s most basic means of...
The conundrum rattled me after I left the theater… More than the constant singing, that’s the way Annette most resembles the sublime tra...
The difference in Annette is that Driver’s dourness is replicated rather than offset by everything around him. The movie becomes not merely t...
No matter how much of themselves the filmmakers have poured into it, the payoff is skimpy.
A wildly melodramatic rock-opera prone to insane flights of desire, despair, and dorkiness, Annette is gloriously artificial, often daring us to ta...
Annette is sure to be divisive, but it’s a curio that demands to be seen. It’s not as if you get to watch surreal, avant-garde roc...
Carax is paying attention to the world, it seems. He only asks that it does the same in return.
Over the course of 139 minutes, it never, ever takes a break from being creatively bizarre.
The different sensibilities involved rarely mesh together and the songs – mostly thin and unmemorable, more often talky than melodic, with obs...
The eccentric new rock musical finds Driver at the height of his highly physical acting powers.
The most original film of 2021, Annette is a ride like no other, a spellbinding waltz in a storm.
So unrestrained and unapologetic about what it’s trying to do, you can’t help but sing along.
Such wild emotional extremes can only be properly expressed in song, an article of faith that "Annette" embraces with fervid imagination and playfu...
I don’t know what Annette is, except that it’s Annette, and that it’s unique.
You know what you’re in for, and it’s either going to flatten you with joy, as it did me, or it won’t.
Is the movie a farce, a metaphor, a noir meditation on fame? But like so many of the best and strangest moments that festivals like this bring...
It’s a dull and long – really long – piece of preening self-regard, all arriving at a pat, obvious point that does not ju...
Hovering on the brink of collapse, it’s a delicate dance between genius and fiasco…
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"What the hell are you talking about?" With such a facial expression, questions in my head and emotions, I sat while watching. It was hard to sit and generally plunge into this picture. A lot of things my brain simply refused to perceive. This is not for me. But the actors here are just delight.
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The first Carax film that I liked. And, by the way, this applies precisely to the part for which Carax himself was responsible: directing, acting, visuals. As for Sparks, the musical here is made as a parody, which doesn’t fit with the serious tone of the film at all and is rather annoying.
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Leos Carax buries his wife, himself and sprinkles ashes on his head, apologizing to his daughter. The spectacle is fascinating, but so painful and frightening that I would like to avoid it, if not for the Driver, who drags this performance of self-destruction with the pressure of a bulldozer from the very beginning to the final
Watched
Yes, yes, a hopelessly gloomy arthouse musical in which Driver lightened his personal burden for Karax. I am impressed when subtle things (love, talent, betrayal) are presented in such a deliberately kitsch manner, the same applies to music – it is organic to the film and characters.
Watched
The last time the musical genre was so mercilessly turned inside out was by Lars von Trier in Dancer in the Dark. Only if Trier’s method is a noose, Carax’s method is tickling. A painful, unbearable, sadistic tickling.
Watched
Pure cinema. The film is so subduing that even neighing from Driver singing during cunnilingus does not work. A tough story about oblivion in creativity and much more. Is it an artist’s confession or just a reflection on the topic? And what’s the difference if the soul is still broken.
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Roller coaster crossed with a musical. Ups and downs, interest and boredom, resourcefulness and primitiveness, music and dog barking, melodiousness and cacophony. From love to hate one step? From genius to bad taste too. And Carax overcomes this distance with a joyful leap.
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Carax decided to repent, and at the same time made a joke about the musical genre. Well, the viewer got another confession from another director. The picture is colorful and oppressive, but extremely shocking and somewhere even boring. In short, it turned out very French.
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Howard Wolowitz as a conductor – well, that’s a real like. The story can be told in a couple of paragraphs, but the presentation and staging as a musical are very original. Driver is an actor, Carax is a director.
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in the category Significant arthouse, other cinema, and films not for the average viewer. Musical, arthouse, aesthetic pleasure, a breakthrough in perception, all for 10! The gloomy drag is exorbitantly long for all 6 points. The music of the Sparks group pleasantly surprised
Watched
I watched it in Rodina. Many will find the film strange, but after watching it to the end, they will talk about the heroism. After watching it, you feel like you’ve been to an opera. And the reason is not that one of the heroines is an opera diva. There are many metaphors and conventions that need to be omitted in order to see the depth.
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