Like their stunning rock opera, Sparks's own story has involved fame and failure, dramatic lows and highs (though without the anger issues and Wagnerian tragedy). In fact, sealing their film debut's success at the festival, Sparks scooped best soundtrack award and picked up the best director gong for Carax – the cool French auteur later revealed he wished he'd been "the third member of Sparks". They were Ron and Russell Mael, aka US art-pop band Sparks, and Annette was very much their baby, from storyboard to script and music. Were they arthouse producers? Character actors? If the audience was left guessing their identity, after the film's rave reviews they were no longer in doubt. Arty and awkward-looking with a strange facial likeness, one has a pencilled-in moustache and thick glasses, the other a floppy 80s haircut. And beside them, two older men in penguin suits. On the red carpet, the creative team line up: towering ex-Marine Adam Driver and chic Marion Cotillard in a silver mermaid dress, with co-star Simon Helberg and director Leos Carax.
At the Cannes Film Festival in July, the opening-night film, Annette, is about to be screened.
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