Annette (★★☆☆☆). “We love each other so much,” sing Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, over and over, portraying celebrity couple Henry and Ann, a brash standup comedian and renowned soprano who don’t appear to love each other so equally.
The pair’s tempestuous relationship results in disaster and sorrow — although their highly publicized union also produces Annette, a unique and gifted child.Perhaps to emphasize the child’s uncanny specialness, Annette is embodied for most of the film by a marionette.
It’s an impressively life-like marionette, but a puppet nonetheless, and not Carax’s only audacious move calling attention to the film’s artifice and excesses.
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