Sparks’ Russell Mael Discusses ‘Annette’s’ Big Opener, ‘So May We Start,’ and Adam Driver Performance

Angelique Jackson Matt Damon and Adam Driver face off in the first trailer for “The Last Duel,” 20th Century Studios’ historical epic from four-time Academy Award-nominated director Ridley Scott.It’s a clash of movie titans — at least as far as awards pedigree goes — with Oscar winner Damon as Jean de Carrouges and Oscar nominee Driver as Jacques Le Gris, the two friends turned bitter rivals who participated in France’s last sanctioned duel.Emmy winner Jodie Comer stars as Marguerite de

Sparks have shared a new video for their track ‘So May We Start’, featuring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard – watch it below.The track, released last month, appears in Annette, the new musical film directed by Holy Motors helmer Leos Carax, who co-wrote the script with Sparks’ Ron and Russell Mael. As with the video, Driver and Cotillard star in the new film.The film opened the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival this week (July 6), and is being followed by a theatrical release on August 6.

CANNES, France -- In Leos Carax’s “Annette,” an enchantingly demented rock opera, Adam Driver sings in some very strange places. On a motorcycle.

Gallery: Bella Hadid Kicks Of Cannes In Vintage Gaultier First Worn By Naomi Campbell (ELLE (UK))Adam showed his loyalty for the label as he dressed in a black Burberry tuxedo suit while attending the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. The 37-year-old walked the red carpet at the glitzy French event with Marion Cotillard, both of whom star in new movie Annette – which had its premiere on the same evening.

At it again! Adam Driver is one busy man, but in between filming for upcoming movies and setting off to the Cannes Film Festival, he’s found time to take on another responsibility. 

At a Cannes Film Festival like no other, Leos Carax’s Annette may have been the perfect opening movie.

At a Cannes Film Festival like no other, Leos Carax’s Annette may have been the perfect opening movie.

Adam Driver got so bored during a five-minute standing ovation at Cannes that he started smoking a cigarette. The actor was attending at the premiere of his new musical film Annette, in which he stars alongside Marion Cotillard.

Marion Cotillard stunned on the red carpet in a shiny silver dress for the opening ceremony of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on Tuesday (July 6).

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five-minute standing ovation from the crowd.“Holy Motors” director Leos Carax’s latest film is a pop opera with a story and original songs by the duo Sparks, and the movie features everything from a marionette baby, musical head trips and, as at least one critic pointed out, two shots of Driver even briefly singing into Cotillard’s vagina.

‘Holy Motors,’ Holy S#*!”)But when Carax’s new film, “Annette,” premiered at Cannes on Tuesday, it faced a tougher road. The French filmmaker, after all, has the opening-night competition slot this year, which means his new film can’t come as a breath of fresh, weird air the way his last film did.

Clayton Davis The musical groove of Amazon Studios’ “Annette” has landed within the confines of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticDebuting on opening night of the Cannes Film Festival a full year after it was originally expected to appear, “Annette” arrives on a pedestal from which it’s too easily toppled. This latest dose of weirdness from “Holy Motors” director Leos Carax — a tortured celebrity love story set to the maddening music of Sparks and starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard — would surely fare better in an underdog position than anointed from the outset.

Adam Driver, a French-fluent Jodie Foster, a suited Spike Lee and surprise guest Pedro Almodovar all marked the return of the Cannes Film Festival at a glamorous, emotional opening ceremony on Tuesday evening.The first festival gathering to be hosted without social-distanced screenings since the start of the pandemic a year-and half ago, Cannes pulled it off in a big way with the premiere of “Annette,” director Leos Carax’s musical starring Driver and Marion Cotillard.Making the humid evening

Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver are stepping out in style for the 2021 Cannes Film Festival!

This might be a first for a movie musical.