After winning two awards at Cannes, Jacques Audiard’s latest film is released in theaters this Wednesday, August 21, 2024.
Attention, UFO. This Wednesday, August 21, spectators can go to movie theaters to discover Emilia Perezlatest achievement of Jacques AudiardThe feature film has already won two awards at Cannes (the Best Actress Award for its four actresses Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz, and the jury prize). All that remains is to win over the public.
Emilia Perez is a radical proposal by French directorA prophet And Dheepansince it is abouta (mostly) Spanish-language musical drama that mixes the Mexican cartel with transgender identity. Yes, you read that right. In detail, the feature film follows a lawyer in the midst of an existential crisis who is given a mission by a fearsome Mexican gang leader: to help him disappear and finally become the woman he has always been deep down, Emilia. Crazy but daring, explosive, confusing, often moving and surprising, always enjoyable, you will rarely see a feature film like this one. Below, discover the trailer for the film, and our full review below.
A story of atonement and second chances, Emilia Perezwhich we saw at the Cannes Film Festival, is very surprising, but the cocktail, as explosive and disconcerting as it is, manages to take hold. Thanks to a virtuoso staging and superb photography, Jacques Audiard films the repentance of a gang leader, her liberation through her trans identity, and the evils that tear apart Mexican society, drug traffickers and corruption at the forefront.
In the middle, there are opposing women’s journeys that complement and respond to each other until a surprising finale. The heroine played by the Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón (herself a transgender woman) is flamboyant in all the nuances of her inner conflict, while Zoe Saldana is remarkable opposite an astonishing Selena Gomez, who finally shows that, if well directed, she can make sparks fly.
Far from the standards of the musical From Broadway, composers Clément Ducol and Camille have created a powerful soundtrack to make the innermost parts of their characters dance on screen. Emilia Perez is not, however, free of flaws, the sung parts are sometimes quite weak and do not echo the power of the mix of voices or the moment, the plot or certain dialogues do not always take hold, but we are ready to forgive these imperfections in the face of the pleasure that the viewing provides.
Synopsis – Overqualified and overexploited, Rita uses her talents as a lawyer in the service of a large firm more inclined to whitewash criminals than to serve justice. But an unexpected way out opens up for her: helping the cartel leader Manitas to retire from business and carry out the plan he has been secretly refining for years: finally becoming the woman he has always dreamed of being.