while quo vadis, aida? opened in the uk back injanuary 2021, another round bowed here injuly, around about the same time that the 74th cannes film festival was kicking off across the channel. serving as the festival s curtain raiser was annette, a brilliantly bonkers musical written and scored by sparks, in which stars like adam driver and marion cotillard were arguably upstaged in the title role by a puppet. one, two, three, four! the film, which earned leos carax a cannes best director award, was the culmination of a long standing cinematic dream for ron and russell mael a dream that had been brilliantly captured in edgar wright s wonderfully exhaustive documentary the sparks brothers. who are sparks? we are sparks. what are sparks? sparks are a band. are you a real band? next question. are you an english band? we are not an english band. dude.
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