Visionary French director Leos Carax (Holy Motors) teamed up with cult-art pop group Sparks to create an ambitious musical that is more David Lynch than Damien Chazelle.
Adam Driver (BlackKlansman, Marriage Story), Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose) and Simon Helberg (Florence Foster Jenkins, Big Bang Theory) play the key roles in a tortured love story that is so downbeat, dark, and surreal you never once care about the characters.
Anyone who saw Edgar Wright's documentary The Sparks Brothers will instantly be disappointed as their desire to make a movie figured prominently in that documentary — a flick that is certainly more worth your time than this meandering experiment. I doubt there is much demand in 2021 for a two-hour and twenty-minute musical bummer.
Anyone who saw Edgar Wright's documentary The Sparks Brothers will instantly be disappointed as their desire to make a movie figured prominently in that documentary — a flick that is certainly more worth your time than this meandering experiment. I doubt there is much demand in 2021 for a two-hour and twenty-minute musical bummer.
Even those who love alt-film and the avant-garde will likely squirm. I'd rather listen to "Baby Shark" for two hours than a repeat of "So May We Start.”
In a nutshell: Musical miss or mess? Probably the biggest of both in 2021.
Award potential: Despite being the premier film at Cannes and taking Best Director for many amazing scenes, Annette will not be mentioned during award season.
Where to find it: In theaters now. Available on Amazon Prime August 20, 2021.
The Ten Buck Review: Not worth ten bucks.
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