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Annette: Leos Carax just watches when Adam Driver do his show

Leos Carax’s latest film, “Annette,” opens Cannes 2021 on 6 July. It is a fusion of different flavors, ranging from a ‘glam rock video clip’ to a ‘puppet animation’, a ‘backstage musical’ to a ‘motorcycle movie’. A ventriloquist meta-comedy with an anti-musical vein. But he will be remembered when Leos Carax, the extraordinary master of the Second French New Wave, who became famous for his masterpieces, bumped into Adam Driver.

Marriage Story: Who would marry to get a divorce?

February 1, 2020February 1, 2020

After Martin Scorsese, Noah Baumbach… Netflix continues to confuse and raise the question with increasing violence; Where is the cinema? My personal answer is, wherever the movies are, I think. As I watched the Marriage Story, I watched Kramer Against Kramer (1979) on a 55-screen tube TV that came to my mind almost every moment. Salon romance is a strong feeling, but the movies that matter are the ones that shoot them.

The Dead Don’t Die: A star-studded zombie comedy from Jim Jarmusch

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019

It’s been 15 years since the release of Shaun of the Dead, and 10 years since Zombieland, with its fabulous Bill Murray cameo, so it might seem odd that the glitzy opening-night film of this year’s prestigious Cannes Film Festival should be a zombie comedy starring none other than Bill Murray.