Emilia Perez
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A rousing, highly original musical and drama that celebrates the fact that change is possible - on all levels. A Cannes favorite, awarded two Palmes.
Lawyer Rita (Zoe Saldana) is a small light in a big firm: overqualified but underrepresented. Drug dealers, murderers and cartel bosses owe their freedom to her intelligence. Her always corruptible boss basks in the glare of the spotlight afterwards. One day, she is offered a way out: cartel boss Manitas del Monte (Karla Sofía Gascón) wants her help to get out of the mafia world. Rita is to draw a line under his dubious life's work, organize a new life for his wife Jessi (Selena Gomez) and children and implement a plan that he has been preparing in secret for years: to transform himself completely into the woman he has always been deep down: EMILIA PÉREZ. But Manitas' past is a story that only obeys its own rules, which will return and take its revenge with a vengeance.
Nothing less than a unique cinematic revelation is this epochal masterpiece with a magnificent star cast, which was awarded two prizes at Cannes. With this formally revolutionary story about the absolute freedom...
This film is not shown in our current program
Our program for the cinema week starting on Thursday will be published each Monday afternoon