The Globe and Mail
However sloppy its execution, this is a go-for-broke attempt at breaking and then reassembling the form.
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Annette
Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard is an opera singer married to a comedian (Oscar nominee Adam Driver) in this musical written by cult art-pop duo Sparks and directed by Holy Motors' Leos Carax (who won Best Director for this at Cannes 2021). To the couple's surprise, they discover their two-year-old daughter has a remarkable gift.
2021Rating: R16, Violence, nudity, sex scenes & offensive language140 minsFrance, Mexico, USA
DramaMusical
- Director:
- Leos Carax
- Writer:
- Ron MaelRussell Mael
- Cast:
- Adam DriverMarion CotillardSimon HelbergDevyn McDowell
Annette | Awards
Best Director winner at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
Annette | Reviews
Marion Cotillard, Adam Driver and director Leos Carax will make you laugh, groan, roll your eyes, cry, and fill you with rapturous delight.
71%256 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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San Francisco Chronicle
What at first seems different and brilliant ultimately curdles into a new kind of awful.
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The Washington Post
A pretentious, arty, occasionally breathtaking, ultimately misbegotten midsummer gift.
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Paste
Driver's admirable devotion to Annette's stylish ecstasies and ironies can only carry its smattering of ideas so far.
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Vulture
A wildly melodramatic rock-opera prone to insane flights of desire, despair, and dorkiness, Annette is gloriously artificial...
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IndieWire
Hovering on the brink of collapse, it’s a delicate dance between genius and fiasco...
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Variety
This ambitious collaboration between Carax and Sparks drags us under with its downbeat themes and repetitive lyrics.
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Hollywood Reporter
The different sensibilities involved rarely mesh together and the songs - mostly thin and unmemorable, more often talky than melodic, with obsessively repetitive lyrics - seldom ignite much feeling.
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BBC
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 rock operas very often.
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RogerEbert.com
I don't know what Annette is, except that it's Annette, and that it's unique.
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