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A fantastical fever dream that's hard to follow or enjoy: Annette reviewed

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

Annette

15, Key Cities

Leos Carax is the director whose films have always been wilfully odd. Ron and Russell Mael (the brothers from the band Sparks) have also always been wilfully odd. Annette is a collaboration between the three and is therefore wilfully odd in spades. Starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, it is a fantastical, fever-dreamish, sung-through rock opera and I bet you won’t see a more wilfully odd film this year.

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