World premiering at this year’s 77th Cannes Film Festival, french auteur Jacques Audiard’s (Rust and Bones, A Prophet) ‘Emilia Perez’ won the Jury Prize, and became the fifth film in the history of the festival to have an ensemble cast win the Cannes’ Best Actress award.

Netflix revealed a teaser trailer for the musical/crime/drama film that tells the story of a cartel leader planning to undergo a sex reassignment surgery with the help of a lawyer.

The film stars Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Mark Ivanir, and Édgar Ramírez.

Release Date

Directed by Jacques Audiard, ‘Emilia Perez’ opens in select US theaters this Fall before streaming on Netflix on November 13, 2024.

Synopsis

From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) enlists Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job, to help fake her death so that Emilia can finally live authentically as her true self.

Audiard was initially inspired by Boris Razon’s novel ‘Écoute’, but the book only served as a starting point. “Halfway through the book, a transgender drug dealer comes along who wishes to have surgery,” Audiard said. “As the character wasn’t that developed over the following chapters, I decided to start my story there.”

Official Teaser Trailer

Watch the official teaser trailer for ‘Emilia Perez.’