One of the best scenes in holy engines– the 2012 Leos Carax drama – is a musical track in which Denis Lavant leads a procession of men in an accordion-driven cover of from RL Burnside’s “Let My Baby Ride.” It is reminiscent of another exciting musical moment from an earlier Carax / Lavant collaboration: the David Bowie “Modern Love” scene in 1986’s Bad bloodSo when Carax announced its sequel to holy engines was going to be a full musical movie – with music by the Sparks brothers, no less – we were sure enthusiastic, to say the least. Nine years later holy engines knocked our socks off, the first trailer for Carax’s Annette has arrived:
Annette is Carax’s first English-language film, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as a stand-up comic and a well-known opera singer respectively, who fall in love and have a precious little baby together. But of course this is a Leos Carax joint, so things are a bit more complicated than all of that – there’s also the matter of Adam Driver’s absolutely stunning mane from her. Go away, you big bastard Lion King weirdo
Annette premieres at the Cannes Film Festival on July 6 and arrives in US theaters and Amazon Prime video later this summer.