The band Sparks, which consists only of brothers Russell and Ron Mael, is having a moment. The band’s most recent album, “A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip,” charted on the Billboard 200 for the first time since the 1980s. “The Sparks Brothers,” directed by Edgar Wright, is a documentary on the Cornetto Trilogy’s enormous corpus of work. And now they’re getting a movie! “Annette” is the third of several potential Sparks films, and the first to reach cinemas.
The Mael brothers and French filmmaker Leos Carax collaborated on “Annette.” It will be his debut English-language feature picture. Carax is most recognised in the United States for his 2012 feature “Holy Motors.”
Annette – Release Date
According to Deadline, “Annette” will premiere on July 6, 2021, on the opening night of the 74th Cannes Film Festival. After that, in August, it will be released in limited quantities in the United States. “Annette” will premiere on Amazon Prime on August 20, 2021, following its theatrical run. MUBI has secured streaming rights in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Annette – Cast Members
Henry and Ann are played by Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard in the film “Annette.” This is Driver’s third high-profile film in which he performs a musical number. In “Inside Llewyn Davis,” he portrays a sign-shouting folkie, and in “Marriage Story,” he does some Sondheim. In 1998, Cotillard had her breakthrough in France with “Taxi,” which was adapted in the United States with Jimmy Fallon and Queen Latifah. She is most recognised in the United States for her work with Christopher Nolan in the films “Inception” and “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Rooney Mara and Rihanna were attached to feature in “Annette” when word of it first emerged in 2016, according to Variety. However, owing to Driver’s “Star Wars” commitments, filming was postponed. Michelle Williams (through The Film Stage) and later Cotillard were cast in lieu of Mara.
Simon Helberg of “The Big Bang Theory” also appears in “Annette.” In the trailer, both Mael brothers may be seen. With his silent countenance and strange moustache, Ron Mael has always been a major part of Sparks’ appearance.
Ron used to have a bottlebrush moustache like Charlie Chaplin (or Adolf Hitler), but now he has a pencil-thin moustache like John Waters. Simon Pegg dramatises the incident of John Lennon contacting Ringo Starr after seeing Sparks on British television and telling him, “Turn on the television. [T-Rex frontman] Marc Bolan is playing with Hitler.”
Annette – Plotline
“Annette,” according to Deadline, is about a celebrity couple: Henry, a controversial stand-up comedian, and Ann, a world-renowned operatic singer. Henry and Ann’s life in modern-day Los Angeles are permanently changed when they conceive their first child, Annette, “a strange girl with an unusual destiny.”
The film’s song, “So May We Begin,” also contains indications about the narrative and themes of the film. First and foremost, it demonstrates that Sparks’ caustic wit and humour are still present. They sing, “The authors are here, and they’re a touch conceited.” “So May We Begin” is performed from the point of view of artists who are unsure whether or not they have a secret inner existence.
Neither they nor you, the audience, can determine if the stage is “outside” or “inside.” The song also suggests that certain characters in the film will die or kill, and that the film will have a “minor key” atmosphere.
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