Emilia Pérez

Emilia Pérez

Director: Jacques Audiard
Country: France

2024 | 130 min. | Spanish
Subtitles: German, English
FSK ab 12 beantragt

Cast_ Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Édgar Ramírez Screenplay_ Jacques Audiard Camera_ Paul Guilhaume Rights_ Neue Visionen Filmverleih, Wild Bunch Germany

A Mexican cartel boss becomes the woman he always wanted to be. A modern epic, an Oscar candidate, and an epochal masterpiece featuring a magnificent cast of stars.

As a lawyer, Rita (Zoe Saldaña) is a small light in a big firm: overqualified but underrepresented. Dealers, murderers, and drug lords owe their freedom to her intelligence. One day, she is offered a way out: the cartel boss Manitas del Monte (Karla Sofía Gascón) wants her to help him quit the mafia world. Rita must organize a new life for his wife Jessi (Selena Gomez) and their children, as well as put into action a plan that he has been preparing for years: to transform himself, fully and completely, into the woman he has always been deep inside: Emilia Pérez! Manitas’ past, however, plays by rules all its own.

Director

Jacques Audiard, born in 1953, is one of the most internationally esteemed auteurs. His works, acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, include ›A Prophet‹, ›Rust and Bone‹, and ›The Sisters Brothers‹. ›Emilia Pérez‹ was awarded two prizes at Cannes this year.

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