The film is being praised for telling trans stories without being held back by transphobic tropes and clichés…
Netflix has unveiled the trailer for the Cannes-winning musical drama Emilia Pérez, which is being positioned as a contender for the Oscars in the spring. The latest film from award-winning French filmmaker Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone, Dheepan, and Sisters Brothers) first premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year where it took home both the Jury Prize and Best Actress award.
Emilia Pérez was written and directed by Audiard and stars Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramírez, and Mark Ivanir. In the film trans actress Gascón plays a drug kingpin who fakes death in order to undergo gender-affirming surgery. The mostly Spanish-language film’s controversial story, told through song and with a Mexican backdrop, is one of the most original and eccentric concepts of the past decade.
Netflix picked up Emilia Pérez immediately after its buzzy Cannes premiere.
The official synopsis from Netflix reads: “This odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) enlists Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job, to help fake her death so that Emilia can finally live authentically as her true self.”
“The search for identity and queerness has never been told in this manner, unique to the four main actresses at the center of the film’s heart and soul,” IN‘s Matthew Creith wrote after the film’s screening at the Toronto International Film Festival in September (You can read IN‘s full review of the film right here).
You can watch the trailer for Emilia Pérez below.
Jacques Audiard’s film Emilia Pérez premieres on November 1, 2024 in select theatres across North America and will start streaming on Netflix on November 13, 2024.
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