‘Emilia Pérez’ has gained Greatest Image — Musical or Comedy on the 2025 Golden Globes.
Jacques Audiard’s musical, which follows a drug cartel member who makes an attempt to exit the group whereas concurrently receiving surgical procedure to stay as a trans girl, turned heads when it premiered on the 2024 Cannes Movie Pageant. Some critics raved in regards to the movie whereas others had been dissatisfied — however no person denied the boldness of Audiard’s imaginative and prescient.
“You haven’t lived till you’ve seen a film musical the place the phrases ‘mammoplasty, vaginoplasty, rhinoplasty’ play out in track. Nor have you ever lived till you’ve seen that very same film musical by which Selena Gomez says the phrases ‘My pussy nonetheless hurts once I consider you,’” IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio wrote in his Cannes overview. “And also you’ve by no means seen a film musical in any respect about transness that takes as daring of swings as Jacques Audiard‘s ‘Emilia Pérez,’ which is stylistically unforgettable whereas lacking the essential factor that makes any film musical work: Really good, memorable songs.”
The movie bolstered its standing as an awards frontrunner with further competition bows in Telluride and Toronto. Along with Greatest Image, the movie is anticipated to contend for Greatest Authentic Tune and Greatest Supporting Actress for stars Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña.
Talking to IndieWire in Telluride, Audiard defined that he initially deliberate to inform the story of ‘Emilia Pérez’ as an opera after making the film. Whereas these plans had been ultimately placed on maintain, he folded his operatic concepts into the movie to make it really feel much more expressionistic and politically charged.
“The operatic mind-set led to a sure stylization which continues to be within the DNA of the challenge,” Audiard mentioned. “There’s all the time a social or existential tragedy behind it, which makes all of it worthwhile. So you may have a rustic that’s falling aside, or you may have folks that aren’t effectively in their very own pores and skin. So the musical comedy type helps carry that by musical drama, the place singing and dancing do play a job. As a result of if you write an ordinary script, you begin out, you may have a setup, you may have a couple of pages of that, after which the plot strikes ahead. However when abruptly, you may have a track that breaks out, inside a second, you hit the emotion instantly, you perceive the which means. There’s an efficacy that an ordinary script wouldn’t grant you.”
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