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Aug 24, 2021 · After her birth, Henry McHenry recklessly takes care of Baby Annette, holding her in one hand (admittedly a very large, Adam Driver–size hand) like a little bird while he smokes a cigarette...
- Annette Plot Synopsis and Summary
- How Does Ann Use Her Daughter?
- What Is The Deal with Henry’s jaw?
- What Is Baby Annette and Why Is It A Puppet?
- Annette Movie Themes Explained
- Annette Movie Ending Explained
The two main characters of the film are Henry, a divisive and high-performing standup comic, and Ann, a trained opera singer considered a doyen of her art form. The two fall in love and have a baby together, whom they name Annette. With her coming into their lives, the professional promise of the two takes contrasting turns. While Ann achieves glob...
Ann holds Henry guilty for the disintegration of their fairy tale love. The nightmares she has of Henry on the verge of killing her like his previous female victims embellish the paranoia in her mind. His changing behavior and response to her success convince her to believe that he might hurt her in some manner. The entire sequence of the two unwin...
Henry’s birthmark has become an interesting talking point. As the movie progresses, it becomes bigger and even more noticeable, to a point where it spills over into unpleasantness. It strangely matches Henry’s changing attitude and the perception of the viewer towards him. In the absence of any clarification from Carax, let us dive in to explore wh...
Baby Annette can be described as a doll at first. It gradually transitions into a puppet, and finally, a living human being. It is “blessed” with the angelic voice of her dead mother, who gave it to curse her husband’s soul. What was meant as a blessing and the trigger for neverending happiness for Henry and Ann, turns into a malaise that destroys ...
Agonized Male Guilt
Guilt is inseparable from suffering. The two usually occur in this order but not on those occasions where innate suffering makes way for a realization of guilt. Henry is an embodiment of the same. His realization comes far too late, the lack of which pushes him beyond the contours of sanity. His incredible breakdown serves as the perfect pitch for vengeance for Ann. There are no comparable make protagonists in recent cinematic history that have so miserably fallen from viewer favor like him....
The Annihilating Nature of Narcissism and Masculinity
Carax’s protagonists often turn out to be proxies of the director himself. Many a time, distinguishing himself from the character becomes a hard job during the writing process to his own admission. A cumulative look at his leading men reveals their tendency to use an overt sense of masculinity to assert their dominance and pacify their narcissistic urges. Henry’s resentful and tepid showcasing of Ann’s success lays bare the kind of person he is in real life. His non-assuming and carefree atti...
The ending of ‘Annette’ is not only emotionally cathartic but also really confusing. Henry is apprehended and convicted of murder when Ann’s ghost outs her. He is sent to prison and Annette visits him, as a living person. The very ambiguity of what lies ahead for Annette defines the breaking of the shackles she found herself tied to. Carax’s critic...
Aug 21, 2021 · Leos Carax had a problem: he wanted to incorporate a small child with preternatural singing prowess into his deranged Sparks brothers movie musical “ Annette ,” but the director didn’t want to...
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Jul 20, 2022 · With no money, Henry proposes to Ann’s former accompanist (Helberg), that they put baby Annette in a musical singing act. Of course, using Ann’s singing voice, baby Annette becomes a hit....
Aug 18, 2021 · The tension between Henry’s fame and his monstrousness drives Annette, which was written by the Mael brothers and Carax. Henry is a living horror show who proclaims himself “The Ape of God ...
Aug 4, 2021 · Henry is not "canceled" because of accusations from women. In a spectacular act of self-destruction, Henry torches his own career. He cancels himself. As his star falls, Ann's star rises. The tabloid press seethes around them, salivating at the trainwreck.
Aug 20, 2021 · Annette, you see, is the couple’s child, and like many children, she seems at first less like her own person and more like the embodiment of her parents’ hopes and fears. (Upset he’s been left at...
