Director: Jacques Audiard Run Time: 130 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Starring: Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramírez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana
Country: France
Language: Spanish, English, French
About the film:
World Premiere, 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Writer-director Jacques Audiard’s latest film tells the story of a high-powered lawyer who takes on an unexpected assignment: helping a Mexican cartel leader fake their death and undergo sex-reassignment operations.
About the filmmaker:
Jacques Audiard is a revered French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a film director and screenwriter. As of 2024, six of his films competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival: A Self-Made Hero (1996), A Prophet (2009), Rust and Bone (2012), Dheepan (2015), Paris, 13th District (2021), and his latest, Emilia Pérez (2024), winning the prize in 2015. His first English language film, 2018’s The Sisters Brothers, won the Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival.
France’s submission for Best International Feature, Emilia Pérez (2024) will hit select theaters this fall ahead of its Netflix premiere in mid-November.
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