What are the first reviews for Jacques Audiard’s musical comedy in Cannes? Check out the tweet review of “Emilia Perez,” featuring Selena Gomez. This is the new film from the director of A Prophet and Dheepan, in competition at Cannes.
Selena Gomez at Jacques Audiard? Surprising association, and which seems to create real sparks according to the first returns of the film from the Croisette, where the film was presented last night in competition.
Three years after The Olympiads, also presented in Competition, the director of A Prophet returns with this musical comedy called Emilia Perez.
The story ? Overqualified and overexploited, Rita uses her talents as a lawyer in the service of a large firm more inclined to launder criminals than to serve justice. But an unexpected exit door opens to her, helping the cartel leader Manitas to get out of business and carry out the plan he has been secretly refining for years: finally becoming the woman he always dreamed of being. .
Alongside the American superstar, we will also find Zoe Saldana, and the revelation Karla Sofía Gascón.
Review of tweets about Emilia Perez
“Finally my 1st Palme in the #Cannes2024 competition. With #EmiliaPerez Jacques Audiard offers an outcome. He knew how to combine thriller, melodrama and musical film with songs and choreographies that are as varied as they are exciting. Thanks also to the actresses, we are overwhelmed by emotion.“
“Emilia Perez is so INSANE!!!! It was crazy. This story, the music, the staging… There are 15 ideas per minute. Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofia Gascon and Selena Gomez look stunning. For the question of transidentity it is sometimes chaotic, but BINGO.“
“I didn’t believe it but #emiliaperez is an incredible ride! A musical drama comedy like no other – a tasty and disconcerting surprise in the image of its improbable scenario!“
“It’s pretty crazy #EmiliaPerez, musical comedy by Jacques Audiard. Everything is visceral and melodramatic, grandiose and realistic, delicate and gruff, part Almodovar, part Michael Mann. Destabilizing and exciting.“
“Really won over by the crazy generosity of #EmiliaPerez, a film that almost breaks its face ten times, gets up eleven times without ever being afraid of anything. Certainly one of the strong films of this start of #Cannes2024“
“With #EmiliaPerez, Jacques Audiard signs his best film since Un Prophète. A resounding success that combines thriller and musical comedy through virtuoso staging highlighting the prodigious performances of Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón.“
“Oh it’s crazy #EmiliaPerez! The dialogues are sometimes disastrous, some voices are catastrophic and the thriller is not crazy, but the energy of the direction carries you and the Saldana-Gomez-Gascón trio is great. Both brilliant and ridiculous.“
Emilia Perez will be released in cinemas on August 28, 2024. Note that previews of the film are planned for the coming days as part of a program of Cannes revivals, in the Pathé and Mk2 networks.