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Emilia Pérez Is the Breakout Movie of Cannes 2024
Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón on making the Jacques Audiard film that’s taking this year’s festival by storm.
The story, which Jacques Audiard loosely adapted from Boris Razon’s novel Écoute, begins with Zoe Saldaña as Rita, a talented criminal defense attorney who’s overwhelmed and underpaid and spiritually lost. Manitas has a secret, extremely lucrative request for Rita: to help him disappear from his life — including his children and his wife Jessi (Selena Gomez) — and seek gender confirmation surgery to live as a woman. Everyone is operating at their peak here: Audiard, who takes endless risks that nearly all pay off; Saldaña, who has never been better, doing pitch-perfect vocal runs and hitting difficult choreo while emanating raw humanity; Gomez, who’s bruised, vulnerable and tough, playing in a new key.
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