This is what the theater looked like at the start of the movie. Yes, I had the place to myself. I sat in the middle and wore my mask anyway. It was great.

Summerfield Theater

This theater does not cater to the kind of people who don’t get vaccinated, so I felt pretty safe.

I saw “Annette” which was the Cannes Festival Opener and won best director. It is a sung movie — an opera. Ann (Marion Cotillard) is an opera singer. She falls in love, gets married and has a daughter, Annette (little Ann, get it?) to whom she sings. When the baby is a toddler, Ann dies. About the time Little Annette starts to talk, she also starts to sing amazingly. The bad father (Adam Driver) exploits Annette. When she gets a little older, she tells the whole world the truth about him. In the final duet, she sings, “Now you have no one to love.”

Sounds like Rigoletto, I know — but it’s not. I liked it, but I understand why the theater was empty. I was disappointed that it wasn’t in French.