Sponsor
Cinematic Arts
Co-Sponsor(s)
Art, Art History & Visual Studies; Arts & Sciences (A&S); Center for French and Francophone Studies; Romance Studies
Screen/Society--"Annette" (Leos Carax, 2021) | 2026 French Film Festival
Speaker(s): Introduced by Prof. Anne-Gaëlle Saliot (Romance Studies/Cinematic Arts); Q&A to follow
Screening as part of the 2026 French Film Festival
(Jan 29 - Feb 13, 2025)
ANNETTE
(Leos Carax, 2021, 139 min, France, English, DCP)
A years-spanning musical melodrama drenched in greens and yellows, scored by oddball art-pop duo Sparks and based on their original story, ANNETTE marks the French director's first English-language film, which revolves around a celebrity couple in present-day Los Angeles. Henry (Adam Driver), a towering stand-up comedian, and Ann (Marion Cotillard), a world-famous singer, are living life happily in the spotlight until their world is upended after the birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious little girl with a peculiar talent. Carax imbues his sixth feature with grandiose compositions, an exhilarating sense of movement, and a turbulent emotional register-alternately moody, beguiling, effusive, and hilarious-all the while toying with established genres in the most thrilling ways imaginable.
-- Winner for Best Director at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival
"ANNETTE is a ride like no other, a spellbinding waltz in a storm." - Empire Magazine
"ANNETTE is remarkable. It's an exhilarating collision of cinema, live concerts, stage shows, and celebrity culture, shaken up and let loose with abandon." - Polygon
"In its mix of angsty formalism and sing-along fun, Annette may be the closest that musical cinema has come to when Brecht and Weill put a knife in Macheath's hand for THE THREEPENNY OPERA." - Austin Chronicle
Sponsored by Albertine Cinemathèque, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine.
French Film Festival website: https://francophone.duke.edu/news/2026-french-film-festival-jan-29-feb-…
(Jan 29 - Feb 13, 2025)
ANNETTE
(Leos Carax, 2021, 139 min, France, English, DCP)
A years-spanning musical melodrama drenched in greens and yellows, scored by oddball art-pop duo Sparks and based on their original story, ANNETTE marks the French director's first English-language film, which revolves around a celebrity couple in present-day Los Angeles. Henry (Adam Driver), a towering stand-up comedian, and Ann (Marion Cotillard), a world-famous singer, are living life happily in the spotlight until their world is upended after the birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious little girl with a peculiar talent. Carax imbues his sixth feature with grandiose compositions, an exhilarating sense of movement, and a turbulent emotional register-alternately moody, beguiling, effusive, and hilarious-all the while toying with established genres in the most thrilling ways imaginable.
-- Winner for Best Director at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival
"ANNETTE is a ride like no other, a spellbinding waltz in a storm." - Empire Magazine
"ANNETTE is remarkable. It's an exhilarating collision of cinema, live concerts, stage shows, and celebrity culture, shaken up and let loose with abandon." - Polygon
"In its mix of angsty formalism and sing-along fun, Annette may be the closest that musical cinema has come to when Brecht and Weill put a knife in Macheath's hand for THE THREEPENNY OPERA." - Austin Chronicle
Sponsored by Albertine Cinemathèque, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine.
French Film Festival website: https://francophone.duke.edu/news/2026-french-film-festival-jan-29-feb-…
