Filmmaker Leos Carax’s last release was 2012’s “Holy Motors.” That Cannes-premiered movie ended up not only getting critically-acclaimed, but also appeared in a slew of best-of-the-decade lists, even finishing 20th on our 2010’s critics poll of the best movies of the last decade.
A new interview with Sparks musician Russel Mael has the artist talking about his work on Carax’s upcoming musical “Annette” [via Consequences of Sound] and, suffice to say, it sounds like a very unique cinematic experience (would you expect anything else from Carax?)
“Adam Driver is really spectacular in the movie & it’s just all singing, all of the dialogue, 95% of it is sung in a way that’s stylistically true to Sparks sensibility, if you can imagine that. Adam Driver doing Sparks, that’s what we have”
The screenplay for “Annette” was written by the musical Mael brothers (Ron and Russell), otherwise known as Sparks a musical duo launched 47 years ago.
The cryptic, but official synopsis of “Annette” has a stand-up comedian (played by Adam Driver) and his opera singer wife (Marion Cotillard) discovering that their two-year-old daughter has a “surprising gift.” Not much else is known about the movie at this time, but rumors had it set to premiere in May at the now-canceled, postponed, who knows right now, Cannes Film Festival.
There is currently no release date for “Annette", but one assumes that, if things go back to some kind of normalcy, a fall date is all but inevitable and maybe even a new premiere slot at next September’s Venice Film Festival.