Mais Oui, Start! French Director Leos Carax Kicks Off Cannes With His “Musical Fantasy” Rock Opera ‘Annette’
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deadline.comSince 1984, Leos Carax has only made five features, and all but one of them have premiered in Cannes, usually to feverish anticipation.
This year, festivalgoers will be looking to see how the 60-year-old French maverick—AKA Alex Christophe Dupont—will top his intoxicatingly strange 2012 competition entry Holy Motors, which featured talking limos, chimpanzees and Kylie Minogue.
They’ll get their answer when Cannes raises the curtain on this year’s opener Annette, a thematically dark, visually kaleidoscopic rock opera he co-wrote with U.S.
pop duo Sparks, which stars Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard.DEADLINE: What is your strongest memory of Cannes? Do you associate it with good times or bad times? LEOS CARAX: What makes the Cannes experience
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