hey what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott back again
with a brand new movie review and today we'll be discussing a musical film by the name of annette
which premiered last month at cannes film festival and will be making its way to amazon prime on
august 20th now i got the opportunity to check it out courtesy of amazon and i am really excited to
let you all know what i thought about this musical and let you know if it's worth checking out all in
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you were even excited for if you even heard of this film if it was on your radar and once you've
seen a net whether it was in theaters on amazon prime on august 20th or beyond let's talk about
this film let's break it down together let me know what you think of the direction the narrative and
the story the performances the musical pieces what was your favorite song of the entire soundtrack
what was your favorite set piece and let's talk criticisms were you not impressed by this film
did you not enjoy the narrative were you bored by this film and since we're talking musicals let's
talk about your favorite this doesn't have to be all time movies but let's talk in the last five to
seven years what are your top three musicals let's discuss it in the comments section so going into
a net i avoided the trailer i didn't read the synopsis i knew it was a musical that was all i
knew but also i knew that adam driver and marion coltiar were in this film and i'm a big fan of
their work so going into this film i'm not the musical guy i will say that i appreciate a good
musical now the answer my own question my favorite musicals in the last five or seven years is easily
la la land sing street and most recently in the heights i appreciate a good musical but i don't
gravitate towards musicals so what did i think about this musical starting off with my positives
i want to start with the production because if i'm not mistaken i want to say this had a production
value of about 15 million dollars which surprised the hell out of me because i was completely
floored by the set designs the cinematography it was just one scene in particular i'll just
go straight to it without diving to where it is in the film and it's actually on the poster
seeing our two characters henry and anne on this cruise ship the lighting the score the way that
the water was clashing i mean the the production this film was flawless this film feels more like a
broadway play which isn't necessarily a good thing or a bad thing but i just felt like i was watching
a play at the highest production value possible so i was absolutely floored by the color palette
and just how they were able to bring these grandioso sets to life so that's definitely
a positive i gotta talk about some of the themes and not really dive into the story because i don't
want to give too much away but as far as what i took away from this narrative which is actually
a pretty straightforward narrative surprisingly enough because this is a very out there bizarre
experimental film to say the least and we'll talk about a little bit later but as far as
the themes you know this story really does do a good job of talking about relationships
right and and how you can lose yourself in a relationship and how you can sometimes
fall so in love with someone that you don't really take the time to learn who they are
do some research about their past especially with these two characters being big celebrities and
whatnot so i found that to be intriguing i found the themes of lust greed uh exploiting the youth
uh you know different things that nature really kind of shine within this film and i thought that
those and there's a lot of other things to kind of dissect but i don't really want to give too many
of the themes away but those themes really kind of set out to me and were handled pretty well
which brings me to the performances like i said i was sold by seeing adam driver and marrying coach
yard and started with adam driver who plays henry who's a very famous comedian in this film he has a
really interesting comedic side of him he is very cynical comedy beats very dark comedy beats
but he has a crew and a crowd of people that love his work and you're just seeing henry on
you know as the film explores who this person is and this film is really his character especially
in the second half but just seeing him navigate who he is as a person falling in love with anne
jealousy of anne and her blowing up more so than him and then they this isn't a spoiler this is
in the trailer from i watch australia after i watch the film and reading synopsis they have
a kid so what does that mean for henry how does he he has to rediscover who he is does he love
this child does he love his lifestyle more than he loves his family so just seeing all this stuff
and you learn more about his dark side and his past and some of the things he's done in the past
i was absolutely floored by adam driver i thought that he was absolutely incredible and there were
some things that he was asked to do that he really pulled off and i know adam driver has a background
in broadway and i thought that he was just he was just an [ __ ] and he played that he plays
an [ __ ] so well right rather being girls or obviously you know the villain in star wars
he's a really you hate this character and i mean that in a good way because i thought adam
driver really brought out those sensibilities in this character but going to his co-star who
was played beautifully by marion cote yard who i had no idea was an actual singer in real life
it has like literally her own singing career and she is her voice is beautiful in this song which
this movie which goes into her character annette who is is the big opera singer in this film and
her career is definitely taking off in this film and like i said there's a little bit of jealousy
and just seeing that dynamic and how she plays things out in this film and i wish we would have
explored more of her individually and i'll talk about that a little bit later in my christmas but
for what we get with marion coach yard i thought that she was fantastic so the production was great
the performances were there the themes are really heavily strong and handled pretty well in this
film and speaking of the musical aspect i thought and this is comes from the spark so i'm not too
familiar with their their music and whatnot but i know they have like a cult following a really
popular brand but i have to say man there were a couple songs and i downloaded one in particular as
you all can see on the screen now we love each other so much is a very catchy song and when
you see that song in the movie it is uh it fits pretty perfectly in the scenes and i'll just say
this this movie is not for kids there are not one but two very hot and steamy sex scenes with these
two beautiful people in this film and again like i said that was my favorite song in the entire movie
we love each other that's a really good song so i definitely uh downloaded that and listen to it
quite a few times after watching this movie so we talked pros we got a transition to my
criticisms i mentioned that this film is bonkers it is kind of all over the place and it's a pretty
straight narrative for such a complex such a you know grandiose type of production the film
my issue with this movie is the pacing man this movie is almost two and a half hours and i felt
like there were just so many moments that were just like lingering on this mannering through
certain elements of the film that really don't explore what i was hoping this film would explore
which is this actual dynamic and this relationship between these two characters henry and annette
we get the gist of the relationship they're two big celebrities and we see this story all the time
whether it be on e news or you look at the people magazines and this person's dating this person
they're having a baby they're going on a yacht it has all those basic foundations of a celebrity
couple but we don't dive into the minutia what makes your relationship special i really wish we
would explore with that which brings me to marion coltiar such a talented performer and gives a
great performance but she doesn't end the film that much for me especially in the second half
and there's reasons why and for me personally the second half was much more of a stronger narrative
than the first half because i think the first half was really where i felt like the film didn't
have much of a footing the second half was much more of a stronger narrative but marion culture
to me was really kind of under mutilized in the narrative of talent telling her side of the story
really kind of exploring her character so that was kind of unfortunate but again going back to
the pacing in the musical aspect i found this film to be very generic in a sense right i thought the
story was just kind of more more of the same what you've seen in a film that deals with a couple
that deals with jealousy that deals with you know just kind of disagreements and things
that nature i thought it was a pretty again i was so impressed by the production and how they put
all the pieces to the production together how it looked just so beautiful but it was just such a
simplified story and trust me you're going to hear people talk about this film and maybe call
it a masterpiece and make it more complex what it is but i just thought it was just kind of
underwhelming and how we kind of unfold the story i will say again going back to the second
half when we meet and part two uh or the baby and you know that narrative was really strong
but it was just it's so many points this film that i was just kind of checked out
okay this is intriguing oh this is kind of getting boring oh this is interesting it was just so many
peaks and valleys throughout this film i just thought it was kind of really inconsistent
which again speaks to this film more like a play and like cut up in chapters versus a a narrative
like a story a movie that kind of gives you a first act the second act again there's there's
those foundations in there but i just thought it was just kind of clumsy in how this film was told
and i know from what i read about the director here leo's carrick he's a very experimental type
of director and i can appreciate experimental films but at the same time i like my films to
be a little bit more structured and i feel like it was a little bit too chaotic too a little bit too
bonkers a little bit too all over the place for my personal taste so before i give you all my overall
thoughts on my score if you haven't already if you stuck around to this point in the video make sure
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overall annette is a film that is beautifully shot and that has two really great performances
especially from adam driver it really does hit homes on his themes but unfortunately the pacing
the way that the story kind of unfolds the under using of particular characters
and just the length just felt like two and a half hours and it felt like it was just
really poorly put together in regards to the editing and everything that nature but
still with all that being said i cannot ignore the production and a great performance by adam driver
i'm gonna give annette a solid three out of five and i'm just gonna say it right now this
movie is not for everyone if you are a broadway fan a musical fan you're a fan of this director
you're probably gonna love this film it's probably gonna be your favorite film of all time
but if you're someone like me that dabbles in musicals that dabbles in broadway that isn't too
familiar with his director and again i appreciate experimental movies but not when it doesn't have
a narrative that is more structured because this film is kind of chaotic in its narrative
then it might not be the movie for you so take that as you will again it will be available on
amazon prime august 20th and if you took the chance to check it out let's talk about it
in the comments again your highs your lows your pros your cons your thoughts on the performances
the themes the what was your favorite set piece your favorite musical part of the film and let's
talk criticisms and let's have a discussion about it in the comments again i appreciate
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