Liffe after Liffe Season Series:
Emilia Pérez

Directed by: Jacques Audiard
France, Mexico, USA, 2024, 2024, 130'

Cankarjev dom Cinema Liffe after Liffe Season Series: Emilia Pérez

Screenplay: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Nicolas Livecchi, Léa Mysius
Cinematography: Paul Guilhaume
Music:Camille, Clément Ducol
Cast: Zoe Saldana (Rita Moro Castro), Selena Gomez (Jessi), Edgar Ramírez (Gustavo), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Perez/Juan Del Monte), Mark Ivanir, Adriana Paz (Epifanía), James Gerard, Eric Geynes, Tulika Srivastava, Agathe Bokja, Alonso Venegas Flores, Cyrus Khodaveisi
Producent: Why Not Productions & Page 114 & Pathé Films & Saint Laurent
Production & France 2 Cinéma
Distribution: Fivia d.o.o.

A fiery trans gangster musical fuelled by Mexican soap opera devices, Emilia Pérez won two awards at Cannes, becoming the most awarded film of the festival's 77th edition.

Rita Mora Castro is a hard-working attorney getting slightly frustrated with the fact that her clients tend to be drug lords, murderers and wealthy abusers. One night, Rita is kidnapped and whisked off to meet cartel boss Manitas, who has an odd request for her. This powerful drug lord, who's already been taking hormone treatments for two years, wants to have gender confirmation surgery. Rita is left with no choice but to accept his offer. With her life turning into a psychedelic roller coaster ride, Rita could quickly find herself on the wrong side of the law.

My intention was about the transition identity, which was the chapter in the novel that gave me the idea for this film. I wanted the film to be set in Mexico, which I believe is a bit of a schizophrenic country, and these two elements, somehow the transition of Manitas Del Monte was Emilia Pérez, the change of gender was to be matched, in my opinion, with a change in the genre. Because I wanted it to be a soap opera and a musical comedy, a narcos film, something where you could not really grasp a label, something that was still very fluid. A drama that kept on changing and not being labeled
Jacques Audiard

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