‘Emilia Perez’ to Represent France in Oscars International Feature Race
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent France’s revamped Oscar committee has selected Jacques Audiard’s exhilarating redemption thriller “Emilia Perez” for the international feature film race.
The movie won two major awards at the Cannes Film Festival and earned rave reviews. “Emilia Perez” stars Karla Sofía Gascón as a fearsome drug lord who embraces her true self as a woman.
The Spanish-language film earned one of Cannes’s longest standing ovations and went on to win the Jury Prize (in a jury presided over by Greta Gerwig), on top of a Best Actress Prize for the ensemble cast, including Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz.
The movie was bought by Netflix for the U.S. and the U.K. following its Cannes premiere. Audiard is a revered French auteur who won a Palme d’Or with “Dheepan,” and was previously nominated for a foreign-language Oscar with “A Prophet” starring Tahar Rahim.
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