Annette

Leos Carax’s collaboration with Sparks finds Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard playing a couple whose daughter is a marionette puppet.

  • Director

    Leos Carax

  • With

    Marion Cotillard, Adam Driver, Simon Helberg, Devyn McDowell

  • France 2021. 141min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

A stand-up comic and opera singer marry and parent a child named Annette, which exists in the film as a marionette puppet. But the relationship takes a tumultuous turn and edges perilously towards an abyss. With a story and songs by iconic musical duo Sparks, Annette is the kind of cinema we have come to expect from Carax (Pola X, Holy Motors), the former enfant terrible of French cinema. It’s barmy, ballsy and beautiful.