Annette
The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humour and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the perfect couple, healthy, happy, and glamourous. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious girl with an exceptional destiny, will change their lives.
- Released: 2021-07-06
- Runtime: 140 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
- Stars: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg, Devyn McDowell, Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Natalie Mendoza, Kiko Mizuhara, Tyler Matteo, Rebecca Dyson-Smith, Kevin van Doorslaer, Verona Verbakel, Kanji Furutachi, Rila Fukushima, Dominique Dauwe, Elke Shari Van Den Broeck, Angèle, Wim Opbrouck, Leos Carax, Philippe Beyls, Nastya Golubeva Carax, Christiane Tchouhan, Franziska Grohmann, Cindy Almouzni, Sinay Bavurhe, Rachel Mulowayi, Iman Europe, Danielle Withers, Lauren Evans, Julia Bullock, Claron McFadden, Noémie Schellens, Laura Jansen, Eva van der Gucht, Natalia Lafourcade, Bettina Meske, David E. Moore, John Paval, Lemuel Pitts, Colin Lainchbury-Brown, Kait Tenison, Rebecca Sjowall, Geoffrey Carey, Alberto Chromatico, Okon Ubanga Jones, Gabriela Leguizamo, Kamary Phillips, Aydogan Abay, Arvid Assarsson, Jeffrey Dowd, Graciela Maria, Clément Ducol, Richard McCowen, Michael Moore, Beatrice Reece, Eugene Stovall, Sarah Tsehaye, Fiora Cutler, Marina Bohlen, Arina Yalaletdinova, Ella Leyers, Emmi Joutsi, Ai Nishina, Ayano
- Director: Leos Carax
Comments
- cherold - 1 March 2023
tedious
Annette begins with the musical number with the entire cast wandering around singing a fun song, May We Start. This is the first and last really enjoyable moment of the movie.
The story is about the love of a singer and a comic. And one of the first things that happens in the movie after that opening number is we see Adam driver as the comic do a really really long, not especially funny routine. It falls in the category of edgy comedy, but even most edgy comedians trying to work outside the norms of comedy managed to get a few jokes in there. Still, it's kind of interesting at first it's just that it goes on pretty much forever. After a while I began to think that that might be the entire movie.
Eventually something else happens. The leads sing a terrible song called we love each other so much. It establishes a pattern of films that have five or six words in them that are repeatedly endlessly to a forgettable melody. The best musical moments of this movie, written by the band Sparks, or a couple of times where they play little snippets of old songs from when they wrote better songs.
There is one other really fun bit in the movie, a scene where Annette is born. I forgot about it because the overall impression is just a pure boredom.
This movie also has this weird mannequin thing which I'm not even going to get into.
It's unlikable, slow, with forgettable repetitive music. In other words it's art with a capital a. Ugh. - michaelsiphone - 27 July 2022
Creepy baby
Annette is a 2021 musical romantic drama film directed by Leos Carax, his first English-language film 🎤
Oof, this is rotten 🙁 Don't bother seeing it 👎🏼👎🏼
That baby is creepy... - amda-mendes - 4 May 2022
Boring with no poetry
I was so embarrassed at some parts of the movie, the songs were so bad with no poetry and the singing of Adam Driver was not good as well... the movie feels slow... besides art direction I would say the movie didn't land.
