Jacques Audiard Charms Cannes Film Festival with ‘Emilia Perez’

HeyHe is very brave, like Jacques Audiard, to take adventures in the field of musical thriller, which flirts with the line of pure melodrama and Brazilian soap opera. Emilia Perez, which delivers a good blow a la the selection of cannoises in competition.

Habitué du Festival, Grand Prix of the Gulf Prophet (2009) and the Palme d’Or Dipan (2015), western cinema past (Forest Brothers Sisters2018) and sentimental chronicle on tours 18 years^And arrondissement of ParisOlympics) the wars of Mexico or there is Tourner’s History of “Violence/Amour/Mort/D’un pays qui souffre” in Spanish and English.

Lead Chef in Transition

Our voice Mexico, grouillante megapole, which has nothing to do with its inhabitants. Rita is a young and brilliant lawyer, whom her patron uses to prepare a dossier on his clients, corrupt officials, voire meurtriers. L’un d’eux is a meme about your woman, but most of all these suicides are Retenue. During the day, in the portable son, it is the male voice that obliges me to meet on a date.

She is the immediate kidnapping and guide for a dangerous and hidden drug dealer, Manitas, who offers a lot of money to fight the leaks of services, the guide to what they always say: a woman. Rita accepted without reflection and organized the advertising: the research of a discreet surgeon and the exoticism of the woman of Manitas, who ignores his project, and their two children in Switzerland. The adventure begins with the head of the cartel taking on this transition, synonymous with “love of a new world”, she does not want to look after her family. She is going to die and die Emilia Perez.

A LIRE AUSSI Megapolis, Furiosa, Second Act: The Most Incredible Productions of the 2024 Cannes Film FestivalFour years later, Rita, now an international lawyer in London, returns to Hasard Manitas/Emilia, who demands a further service: the organizer and the return to Mexico. Sur Place, in this case, the payments are for kidnapping, a la corruption, the millions of deaths are spent on the rules of compte into the cartels, and because the girls are afraid to let the films disappear in the distribution of the tracts, Emilia, touched by grace, decides to become the assistant of the good association, La Lucetita (la petite lumière).

Priority for women

The redemptive form that transforms Rita’s life and cell, the organization of Emilia’s rape of her woman Jessica and her children’s children. For today, she is “tante Emi”. But now the situation is complicated. Comment on this: what does the Imagineer think of her in the face of her mother?

With a re-shot scene co-written by Thomas Bidegain’s accomplice (The Prophet, From the river to the sea and etc. Dipan), Jacques Audiard took over the tone, the tempo. From the very beginning of the film we see a series of scenes performed and danced by Rita/Zoe Saldanha, as in musical Latin American willow. Continuing the chic image of the dramatic arc and beloved rhythm. At the top, un parti pris: women play a major role in the country’s macho reputation.

A LIRE AUSSI Cannes: Greta Gerwig, the president to meet on the CroisetteActress and dancer Zoe Saldanha (la Neytiri d’Avatar) give a person all the energy without feelings, emotions are strengthened by the melodies of the singer Camille and her companion Clement Ducol. The presence of choirs in the choreography on the cord of Signora Damien Jalet electrifies the scenes of Mexican life. Nights or reveries, the sons of this “magic reality”, illustrated by the writer Gabriel García Márquez, as in the air of Brassens, “Les Passantes”, playing under the fanfares of the procession in honor of “Saint Emily”.

In this role, comedian Carla Sofia Gascón plays only the duality of her son’s personality, who was a man until her transformation in 2018. connect between ephemeral happiness, opposing feelings and the desire for confrontation with his own woman. On this day, actress and dancer Selena Gomez, of Mexican origin, contributed to the strength and despair of a character who felt abandoned and trahi, sans trop savoir comment refaire sa vie. On est ici en plein mélodrama, a genre that is blossoming in Hollywood.

A LIRE AUSSI Megalopolis: Francis Ford Coppola presents a fable about kamikazes and free-spirited people in CannesFrench actor Edgar Ramirez (Steven Soderbergh’s Che and Olivier Assayas’s Carlos in the miniseries) and Spaniard Adriana Paz round out the solid cast of this film, which, while dealing with a sensitive topic, avoids sentimentality, proselytism and clichés, pour célébrer simply le goût de la vie. Jacques Audiard finds a chance to appear in his hands.