The Sparks Brothers (2021)
Directed by Edgar Wright
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.
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What critics compared The Sparks Brothers to
“Annette,” a film for which Sparks wrote the script and songs, will open the Cannes Film Festival on July 6, directed by France’s Leos Carax (“Holy Motors”) and starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as a stand-up comedian and his opera-singer wife.
They did however recently complete a musical with visionary Holy Motors director Leos Carax, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard to be released later this year which we get a brief behind the scenes glimpse of.
Alongside it and Street Gang , there was also Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers, the Baby Driver director’s deluxe boxed set of a tribute to the long-lived LA art pop duo Sparks, and Jamila Wignot’s Ailey, a transcendent evocation of 20th-century America’s greatest choreographer.
That’s certainly the stance taken by director Edgar Wright ( Baby Driver , Shaun of the Dead ) in his debut documentary chronicling the half-century career of the pop-art (or feel free to add your own label) duo who have dozens of albums to their credit and influenced a seemingly endless number of better-known musicians.
Filmmaker Edgar Wright ( Baby Driver , Shaun of the Dead ) gathered a large cabal of Sparks’ famous fans — Beck, Flea, Björk, Mike Myers, “Weird Al,” two Duran Durans, Todd Rundgren, Jack Antanoff, and many others — and a few not-so-famous fans, and paired their observations with those of the Mael brothers for an in-depth, sometimes too exhaustive recitation of the Sparks story.
One of the most exciting screenings of the week is “The Sparks Brothers,” the latest from director Edgar Wright (2017’s “Baby Driver.”)
If you’re Edgar Wright of “Shaun of the Dead,” “Baby Driver” and the forthcoming “Last Night in Soho,” you pull together the Sparks brothers themselves — Ron and Russell Mael of the extant band Sparks — and a whole lot of their collaborators and fans and you chronicle their decades-long career from start to it’s-not-over-yet.