Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña carry to life an emotional movie-musical for award season.
On Aug. 26, Netflix debuted the primary trailer for Emilia Pérez, a Spanish-language French movie.
A synopsis for the film, which describes it as “an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations,” says Gascón, 52, stars as a cartel chief in Mexico who tries to pretend her dying. Saldaña, 46, and Gomez, 32, additionally star alongside Adriana Paz and Edgar Ramírez.
The film made its world premiere on the 2024 Cannes Movie Competition in Could. An outline of the movie from that pageant signifies that Gascón performs a personality who transitions as they strategy retirement.
“By way of liberating music and dance and daring visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of 4 outstanding ladies in Mexico, every pursuing their very own happiness,” the synopsis reads.
“The fearsome cartel chief Emilia enlists Rita (Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer caught in a dead-end job, to assist pretend her dying in order that Emilia can lastly stay authentically as her true self.”
Emilia Pérez, written and directed by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, took house two awards at Cannes in Could, together with one of the best actress award for its ensemble of ladies.
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On Aug. 19, Gomez shared a video of the second she came upon she was forged within the film on Instagram, displaying her holding again tears instantly after getting the decision.
“I am unable to consider I acquired the film! I am so gonna cry proper now, I do not wish to cry,” she could be heard saying within the footage.
Emilia Pérez is in choose theaters Nov. 1, then streaming on Netflix Nov. 13.
