Annette, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, to open Cannes Film Festival

Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard (David Parry/Ian West/PA)

Leos Carax’s Annette, starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver, will open the 74th Cannes Film Festival on July 6, festival organisers said.

Annette is Carax’s first English-language film and the French director’s anticipated follow-up to his celebrated, surreal 2012 film Holy Motors.