Emilia Pérez

Director Jacques Audiard (Un prophète, De rouille et d'os) turned Emilia Pérez into a beautiful musical melodrama about crime and gender. Indeed, musical, because there is singing in it regularly. It already earned Audiard the jury prize for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival. Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz jointly won the prize for Best Actress.

Overqualified and underappreciated, Rita works at a large law firm that mainly counts serious criminals among its clientele. She receives a mysterious phone call from Mexican drug lord Manitas Del Monte. He makes Rita an offer she can't refuse. She will never have to work again if she helps him leave his empire behind. Manitas has a plan that he has been refining in secret for years: to finally become the woman he has always wanted to be, Emilia Pérez.

Emilia Pérez was one of the most acclaimed films of the last edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Audiard surprised friend and foe with this super entertaining musical that has a high camp content, comparable to the work of Pedro Almodóvar, but is also exciting and even moving.