Having passed through the last Cannes Film Festival, where it won two prizes, “Emilia Perez” by Jacques Audiard unveils its intense trailer. While waiting for the release, on August 21, of this musical drama in the Spanish language.
Three years after the black and white of his Olympiads, which left the Croisette empty-handed, Jacques Audiard made his return to the Competition of the Cannes Film Festival with Emilia Perez, a flamboyant and colorful film, the trailer for which has just been released. ‘be revealed.
A project that one would not associate with it at all on paper, since it is a Spanish-language musical drama about a lawyer (Zoe Saldana) who helps a cartel leader to get out of business and become the woman she always dreamed of being.
Like Leos Carax with Annette (also at Cannes in 2021, but awarded), the director of A Prophet and Dheepan ventures where we least expect him, dares to make bold breaks in tone and offers us absolutely intoxicating musical sequences , of which the trailer gives us a little glimpse.
One film, two prizes at Cannes
Unlike others who, recently, masked the singing and dancing as much as possible, that of Emilia Perez makes room for them, to give the viewer a taste of what awaits them at the cinema on August 21. Even if it is very far from showing everything.
See you in theaters in a little over two months to discover this feature film which caused a sensation at Cannes. And won over Greta Gerwig’s jury, which awarded her two awards: the Jury Prize and a collective Female Interpretation Prize, awarded to Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Ariana Paz and Karla Sofia Gascon, already the one of the major revelations of 2024.