Adam Driver's hair is majestic in the trailer for the Leos Carax musical Annette
Film Features Leos Carax
One of the best scenes in Holy Motors—the Leos Carax drama from 2012—is a musical number in which Denis Lavant leads a procession of men in an accordion-driven cover of of R.L. Burnside’s “Let My Baby Ride.” It’s evocative of another exhilarating musical moment from an earlier Carax/Lavant collab: The David Bowie “Modern Love” scene in 1986's Mauvais Sang. So when Carax announced that his follow-up to Holy Motors would be a full-on musical film—featuring music by the Sparks brothers, no less—we were certainly enthused, to say the least. Nine years after Holy Motors knocked our socks off, the first trailer for Carax’s Annette has arrived:
Annette is Carax’s first english-language effort, and stars Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as a stand-up comic and a renowned opera singer, respectively, who fall in love and have a precious lil baby together. But of course this is a Leos Carax joint, so things are a bit more complicated than all of that—there’s also the matter of Adam Driver’s absolutely stunning mane of hair. Go off, you big lanky Lion King weirdo.
Annette is set to premiere at the Cannes film festival on July 6, and will arrive in U.S. theaters and on Amazon Prime video sometime later this summer.
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Marion Cotillard, born 1975.Adam Driver, born 1983.
Turnabout is fair play.
I’m just happy to be represented.
Works for me.
And the “Modern Love” scene from Mauvais Sang was homaged/recreated/ripped off in Frances Ha, a movie co-starring Adam Driver.Time is indeed a flat circle.
I would argue the Mauvais Sang scene was working in dialogue with the end of Manhattan – Woody running along the street; and that Baumbach was synthesising the two scenes, two strands of his influences, by soundtracking B&W running through NY with Modern Love. Def more homage/recalibration than ripoff for me!
I love Holy Motors so much. Sign me the fuck up for this.
Seconded. You had me at Carax.
This trailer looks fucking excellent. I can’t wait.
Jeez Louise, that’s quite a trailer! Quel drame!!
Good trailer, but I’m disappointed a movie called Annette doesn’t have Annette Bening in it somewhere. Maybe the movie will also have time travel and the baby will grow up to be her. Here’s hoping.
Denis Lavant should be in this movie, and whenever he’s not on screen, the other characters should be asking “Ou est Denis Lavant?”
Go off, you big lanky Lion King weirdo.You are no John Oliver.
Heard this in John Oliver’s voice nonetheless. A sleepy John Oliver, perhaps; hugging his pillow, in his jammies, and tucking in for a long night of sweet Driver dreams.
I read most of the article in John Oliver’s thirsty voice. . . now if there was a world’s longest rabbit and dirty pictures of mice in this movie, he’d be all set!
Should be *get* off, but still I smiled.
Leos Carax, Sparks and Adam Driver is a weird combo but I would like six seasons and a movie of this, please.
How is the headline of this article NOT “Sparks wrote a rock opera and it’s a movie”?
John Oliver just came looking at this.
That hair makes me doubly pissed off that Pete Davidson was cast as Joey Ramone rather than AD.
I CAN’T FUCKING WAIT TO SEE THIS!——-John Oliver
If only he’d cast Kylie Minogue in this as well, I’d be in Heaven.
Okay THIS is the first film I’m going to see in an actual cinema once it’s safe and it will be AMAZING.