Three years after “The Olympiads”, Jacques Audiard delighted Cannes festival-goers with his new film “Emilia Perez”, a Spanish-language musical comedy which tells the story of the sexual transition of a Mexican drug trafficking boss. An entire program, dizzying, which is revealed in a first lively and striking trailer.
Emilia Perez unfolds
Sensation of the competition of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival from which he left with the Female Actor Award and the Jury Prizethe new film by Jacques Audiard Emilia Perez is finally revealed in a first trailer (video at the top of the article). Ahead of its release in theaters planned for August 21, 2024we can thus learn more about this hybrid and stunning film, a masterful composition between telenovela luxurious, gangster film about the sexual transition of a criminal and musical comedy where the main cast sings and dances.
A female cast on fire
In these images we can thus have a better overview of the four actresses who wear Emilia Perez. An impressive collective performance, which earned them all the recognition of the Female Interpretation Prize. Zoe Saldaña is Rita, lawyer and then friend of Emilia, who is played by Karla Sofía Gascón. Opposite this Emilia, Selena Gomez plays Jessica, his ex-wife, and Adriana Paz his girlfriend.
It is they who animate this film, for a great story of sorority, friendship and love, powerful bonds which try to resist violence of the environment in which the transition of “Manitas” Del Monte to its new identity takes place. The trailer maintains for a long time the fact that Jacques Audiard’s film is a real musical comedy, with many sequences sung and danced by these actresses. But let the public not panic, far from having attempted this gesture casually, Emilia Perez can count on compositions written with passion and application by Camille and Clément Ducolfor a result as spectacular as it is intoxicating.
