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Selena Gomez Weeps as ‘Emilia Pérez’ Earns Biggest Cannes Standing Ovation So Far at 9 Minutes
‘Emilia Perez,’ starring Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Karla Sofía Gascón, earned a standing ovation at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
“Emilia Pérez,” a musical crime drama starring Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Karla Sofía Gascón, has earned the biggest standing ovation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival so far. In the film, from Palme d’Or winner Jacques Audiard, Saldaña stars as Rita, an “overqualified and undervalued” lawyer, whose firm is “more interested in getting criminals off the hook than bringing them to justice.” She finds an unexpected way out when a feared drug cartel leader Manitas (Gascón) recruits her to aid him in surreptitiously completing a sex change operation to become the woman he’s always wanted to be. It was neither Saldaña nor Gomez’s first time ascending the famed red stairs to the Grand Theatre Lumiere, but it was a major moment for Gascón, a trans actor and rising star from Argentina.
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