Emilia Pérez had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Here's our review...

French director Jacques Audiard (澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:A Prophet, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rust and Bone) leaves his comfort zone far behind with his new film. A fully engaging two-hour musical set in Mexico City, complete with dance numbers and a storyline that ranges from gender reassignment to cartel violence, it’s as daring as they come. With a wonderful cast led by Zoe Saldaña, Selena G💙omez, and the terrific Spanish actor Karla Sofía Gascón, it’s a film♏ that wows in multiple ways. 

The plot gets truly underway as Rita (Saldaña), a dedicated counsellor at law, is summoꦫned by a mysterious voice on the phone. No sooner does she arrive at a newsstand than she is press-ganged into a vehicle, where she meets drug lord Manitas Del Monte (Gascón). 

Two years earlier, he began hormone treatment and wants Rita to find him a surgeon to complete his journey to live “the life nature wouldn&rsquoꦆ;t give me”. Completing his transition, Del Monte becomes Emilia Pérez and starts life over. Even wife Jessi (Gomez)ಌ is made to think her husband has been killed. 

With stellar songs b⛄y French singer Camille, a highly original score by Clément Ducol, and striking choreography by Damien Jalet, Emilia Pérez shifts effortlessly from musical extravagances to a gritty underworld milieu. 

The latter comes to the fore when the story moves on several years, finding Pérez keen to start a campaign to locate those who have “disappeared” in Mexico’s shady crime-riddled system. Saldaña⛄ and Gomez deliver forceful performances (both in Spanish), but even they are outflanked by Gascón. A miraculous movie.

Emilia Pérez's releasꦍe date is currently TBCꦦ.