Original movie musical EMILIA PEREZ starring Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, and Selena Gomez wins three prizes at Cannes

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 5/25/24 at 4:07pm

We don't see too many fully original movie musicals, so when I saw Emilia Perez on the Cannes lineup it piqued my interest.  It's  written and directed by Jacques Audiard (Dheepan, A Prophet, Rust and Bone) has a score by Clément Ducol and original songs by Camille.  It got positive reviews out of Cannes and today won the Jury Prize, the prize for Best Soundtrack, and four central women of the movie collectively won the Best Actress (making Karla Sofía Gascón the first trans woman to win the award in Cannes history). The logline also sounds really interesting - a cartel boss secretly comes out as a trans woman and undergoes gender reclamation therapy in order to escape her life of crime.

The movie has been acquired by Netflix, but no details yet on the release plans, but it sounds like the movie could be one of their big Oscar players this year.