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‘Emilia Pérez’ Helmer Jacques Audiard Set For Retrospective From Santa Barbara Film Festival
Jacques Audiard is in the thick of awards season with his buzzy 'Emilia Pérez,' and now he is set for a retrospective from the 2025 Santa Barbara Film Festival.
Jacques AudiardSBIFF That Cannes Jury Prize-winning film starring Oscar hopeful Karla Sofia Gascón along with Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña will screen on January 10 at the SBIFF Riviera Theatre, followed by an in-person chat with Audiard. “Audiard is a master of cinema — combining genres in order to tell his complex yet compelling stories which always draw attention to important and urgent subjects like immigration and the disenfranchised,” festival executive director Roger Durling said. The Paris native launched his directing career 30 years ago with See How They Fall(Regarde les Hommes Tomber) and has won the Palme d’Or at Cannes with Dheepan along five other noms for the festival’s top prize.
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