The film won two major awards at the Cannes Film Festival and received excellent reviews.
The renewed committee of the Oscar from France has selected the exciting redemption thriller Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perezfor the international feature film race. The film won two major awards at the Cannes Film Festival and received excellent reviews.
What is Emilia Pérez, the film that France chose to win the Oscar award, about?
Emilia Perez is played by Karla Sofia Gasconwho plays Rita, is a lawyer at a large law firm who one day receives an unexpected offer: to help the feared boss of a cartel retire from his business and disappear forever, becoming the woman he has always dreamed of being.
The Spanish-language film received one of the longest standing ovations at Cannes and won the Jury Prize (chaired by Greta Gerwig), as well as a Best Actress Award for the cast, which includes Gascón, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz.
The film was acquired by Netflix for the United States and the United Kingdom after its premiere in Cannes.
Audiard is a revered French author who won a Palme d’Or with Dheepan and was previously nominated for a foreign language Oscar for A prophet.
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