Jacques Audiard: “Emilia Perez is a transgender film”

After entering the Croisette, the cinema exploded with a musical comedy about drug dealers and transit people.

Interested in musical comedies?
Et bien pas vraiment. I don’t mean the culture of this genre – là en tout cas. I love the musical comedies of Bob Fosse or Demi, most of all I love the trope of 30-year-olds, Busby Berkeley or Hollywood productions after the war.

Surprisingly, it is paradoxical: an idea that can be implemented by restoring the lower back. Il ya quelques années, vous évoquiez déjà l’évie de réaliser une musice comdie sur des “go fast”…
Effective. In fact, what I know is that this project is my no-no for living in the form of opera. First text message Emilia Perez What I wrote in 2019 is a book. Text était devisé en actes, suivait des personanages Archétypaux et épousait une temporalité Singulière – like Opera – with beautiful ellipses. Et puis, au Fur et à Mesure, it was another one who was chosen. I love opera, I love music lovers, most of all Australians, I don’t look like a great connoisseur. C’était une envy that crossed me at the time of my second film, Three-discrete hero. With Alexandre Desplat, if available, I thought I would realize a small opera from a film, a man similar to what Peter Brook has with Carmen, Opera Katsu You Nixon in China. “The remaining traces in the films” is a quintet form. In fact, I think you’ll find a better rapport with the music.

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But what exactly is the genre of musical comedy that allows you to use a specific genre for you, comparing themes to Mexico or Transit?
The only thing you have on your topic is you have two options. So I’m talking about what I documented. et je faisais un documentaire (sur la transidentité ou le Mexique). Soit J’essayais de faire un Drame, une popée qui mêle tout ça, qui mêle le le chant et la musique. The special thing is that the songs are suitable for the history troupe, they prefer history.

Comme chez Demy.
Exactly. Mon Film de Référence is a great film about the Algerian war, which Les Parapluis de Cherbourg. On ne fait pas des airs, on dit des chooses, which is important for history and is not the simplicity of des états d’âme.

“D’ailleurs, au-delà de la musice comédie is a film that mixes genres, a musical or a thriller or a love story…
This is lazy. Je l’ai déjà fait, mais la, il y avait des contraintes des contraintes liées à la la comédie musice justement – la musique, les les les chorégraphies. Ca constituait autant de défis.

When I debuted, did I intend to write essays about different genres?
“Je vous rassure, je ne leve me pas le matin en me disant”Tiens, I see a film in this genre or in this genre” This is not an Australian conscientious person. I understand that books, movies, and anything else that bothers me is off topic. Une reflexion s’opère et tout à coup, quelque chose va tomber, qui va cristalliser toutes ces es ids qui vous Tournaient Author. For me, these films are interesting in their own way. Ils ne viennent pas par les sujets.

Après Forest Brothers Sisters vous Tourner de Nouveau with foreign actors. En l’occurence hispanophones et des anglophones. Comment: s’est la communication sur le plato?
I don’t know the comments, I’ll explain this. I can’t speak an unknown language. Neither l’anglais nor l’espagnol, encore moins le tamoul… All cela reste instinctif. The best question is plutôt: pourquoi j’abandonne ma langue maternelle régulièrement? Sans doute parce que j’ai un rapport, for a ma langue… Je suis un grand lecteur. I also have a book man. And when in my language you are interested in three exact things: inflection, accentuation, caesura or tonality. Conversely, when I walk in an unknown language, I advertise revolution and point of view plus diffusion across the film, à la foie plus general and plus summary. Let me concentrate on expressing comedic moves, movements. Ce que je crois percevoir de l’intention. This is a musical connection with the mise-en-scène.

About genre, language and much more Emilia Perez It is also (surtout?) une histoire d’incarnation. Is this the first time you became aware of your character being interpreted as a trans-genre actress?
For me, there is no alternative. I’m not in Japan. From the moment a person is available for transition, he will simultaneously be transposed. It seems like fate, c’était quoi? Faire jouer le role when he is a man equal to a man? Is this possible for an actress when she becomes a woman? Ca n’avait pas de sens et ce qui m’téressait, c’était vraiment l’expérience with a trans actress. Parallel to the mistake was a form of film reproduction based on this idea. Emilia Perez This is a transgenre film: it crosses genres. Or am I a bourgeois drama, from soap operaa film about drugs… and the experiences of Manita’s heroine, the deviant Emilia.

Pour revenir l’incarnation, il ya, comme dans Prophet You Difanvolonté de donner à voir, de rendrevisibles des gens qu’on ne voit pas. What was the original design for the film?
Yes, Il ya quelque chose this order là.. Ce que j’ai fait là, ce que je voulais, c’était de mettre derriere Carla Sophia de numbers continues. Qu’il soit de suite is obvious, understandable, qu’elle parle à égalité avec des stars.

Avez-vous comment to actors Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez?
I know little Zoya. In Los Angeles my agents were my parliamentarians, and they thought they had shirked that role. I had a specific time frame for everyone. And now we have zoom, and I thought it was amazing. She chose what is inaccessible to the entire image of Rita: c’est qu’elle est noire. And here in Mexico, there are three strong social markers that enrich the film. And then he says that he dances and sings the parfaitment. I love Selena in movies like this spring Breakers

Woody Allen film Spit Day in New York. And then I found out that I knew right away. Ce qui est amusant, c’est qu’il ya eu comme un misunderstanding, une illusion: étant donné son pavitame, je pensais qu’elle était hispanisante. Or elle ne parle pas un mot d’espagnol. Parfois is difficulty, parfois is a source of entertainment. Et pour l’anecdote, when je lui ai dit au bout des que je voulais travailler avec elle, elle ne m’a pas cru. Elle m’a pris pour un damn french director !

Le Film aborde des themes très forts, tragiques même (comme celui des disparus). You don’t know what musical comedy is, what do you think it’s trivial?

Ce sont des sujet qui me bouleversent. I can’t speak calmly. And I understand that you are delicate. But I cannot think that when he betrays a tragedy, il faut plutôt la chanter. There’s an opera at the fair. Je vais vous donner un autre example: j’ai d’abord repéré au Mexique. I loved the decors là-bas et, at that moment when reality was stronger. This is reality, this is society, these are powerful forces. And I decided to leave everything in Paris in order to see a certain distance with the heroes. In the advertisement we reconstruct the studio where we became close to the person and ADN du projet – un opéra. Jusque dans son caractère excertif, il faut toujours thinker, this film is like an opera!

Your films seem to be based on three specific settings (prison, suburbia, America…).
I began to reflect on the comment that I was building sets while commenting on the film director only because I knew the game of stupidity. Je suis dit ce qui fait decor c’est des corps. Mes Decors shines with a troupe of dancers and singers.

Emilia Perez These are three daring films. Est-ce qu’avec le temps vous êtes devenu plus courage, plus power of attorney?
Without a doubt. Yes, I know. Je suis fait recemment une reflexion. “The vanguard of my premiere film, I was the screenwriter, but most of all, my premiere was the longest of its kind, for the people I created.” This is special! I don’t know what jeune is, I completed the editing, the script. Interestingly, I know I have three films to get commentary on the march. This is the beginningProphet That the whole pan is open to me so that I feel free. In fact, he cannot be a path for himself. When I’m suis chez moi, j’écris beaucoup. J’écris many versions of the script. It seems there is a movie. And this work allowed me to then gain enough confidence in the story to turn things around and become a great improviser of comedy actors. This is how I work, following this paradox: I build a program for everyone as precisely as possible. Ca peut être parfois très tires! Surtout pour les gens autour de moi. I have an anecdote for this topic: I know I have insomnia and am used to plateauing. Instead of going to nursery during your 12 hour break, you will go to bed. Take a 20 minute nap. And this went on for 20 minutes, I saw the ideas that I liked. And, parfois, when I visit the tour again, I require replacements from everyone! After that, my team repeats what I do at siesta…