Netflix has found its Oscar contender. On Monday, the streamer released the official trailer for Emilia Pérez, a French crime musical that Netflix is positioning as a major awards player.
In Jacques Audiard’s audacious film, Karla Sofía Gascón stars as Emilia, a Mexican cartel leader who seeks the help of Rita (Zoe Saldaña), a lawyer, to fake her own death and undergo gender reassignment surgery. By executing this plan, Emilia hopes to “finally live authentically as her true self,” per Netflix.
Besides Gascón and Saldaña, Emilia Pérez also stars Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Mark Ivanir, and Édgar Ramírez as Gustavo Brun.
Emilia Pérez is written and directed by Audiard, the visionary auteur best known for films such as A Prophet, Rust and Bone, Dheepan, and The Sisters Brothers. Emilia Pérez is based on a chapter in the 2018 novel Écoute by Boris Razon. Audiard originally developed the screenplay as an opera libretto before it became a feature
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