After winning two awards at Cannes, Jacques Audiard’s musical comedy released on August 21, 2024 stood out at the Golden Globes.
Watch out, UFO. On Wednesday August 21, spectators discovered in cinemas Emilia Perezdirected by Jacques Audiard. The feature film had already won two prizes at Cannes (the best actress prize for its four actresses Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz, and the jury prize), it then won four Golden Globes on January 5, 2025 (Best Film, Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Song).
If you missed the phenomenon, know that there are still a few (rare) showings in certain cinemas across France. Furthermore, if the film is not yet available in France on a subscription streaming platform, Emilia Pérez remains visible on most purchase or rental sites, such as Canal VOD, Apple TV, Amazon, Filmo, Google Pla, Universciné, etc., from 4.99 euros.
Emilia Perez is a radical proposal by the French director ofA prophet And Dheepansince it is abouta musical drama in Spanish (mostly) which mixes the Mexican cartel with trans identity. Yes yes, you read correctly. In detail, the feature film follows a lawyer in the midst of an existential crisis who is entrusted with a mission by a formidable 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. Below, check out the trailer for the film, and our full review below.
Story of atonement and second chances, Emilia Pérezwhich we saw at the Cannes Film Festival, is very surprising, but the cocktail, as explosive and confusing as it is, manages to take hold. Thanks to virtuoso direction and superb photography, Jacques Audiard films the repentance of a gang leader, her liberation through her transidentity, and the evils that tear Mexican society apart, with drug traffickers and corruption at the forefront.
In the middle, there are opposing journeys of women which complement and respond to each other until an astonishing finale. The heroine played by Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón (herself a transgender woman) is flamboyant in all the nuances of her inner tension, while Zoe Saldana is remarkable opposite an astonishing Selena Gomez, who finally shows that she is well-directed , it can make sparks.
Far from the standards of musical from Broadway, composers Clément Ducol and Camille create a powerful soundtrack to bring the innermost parts of its characters to dance on screen. Emilia Pérez is however not free from faults, the sung parts are sometimes quite weak and do not echo the power of the mixture of voices or the moment, the plot or certain dialogues do not always take, but we are ready to forgive these imperfections in the face of the pleasure that viewing provides.
Synopsis – Overqualified and overexploited, Rita uses her talents as a lawyer in the service of a large firm more inclined to launder criminals than to serve justice. But an unexpected exit door opens to her, helping the cartel leader Manitas to get out of business and carry out the plan he has been secretly refining for years: finally becoming the woman he always dreamed of being. .