Leos Carax's rock opera Annette opens Cannes film festival
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Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
CANNES: Leos Carax, whose rock opera "Annette" opens the Cannes film festival on Tuesday, has never been afraid of freaking people out.
It´s a typically idiosyncratic Carax tale, with a singing Adam Driver as the stand-up comic father of a toddler with a weird gift.
Marion Cotillard plays her world-famous soprano mother.
Strangeness has been Carax´s stock and trade since he burst onto the international scene 30 years ago with "The Lovers on the Bridge", a financial calamity that became a cult classic.
His leading man Denis Lavant was badly injured on the set and did not speak to the director again for 15 years.