Emilia Pérez Trailer: Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña-starrer to release on Netflix this year

The Spanish musical Emilia Pérez, which generated a lot of discussion at this year’s Cannes Film Festival when it won best actress and jury prize for its ensemble of female stars, will have a limited theatrical run in November before being available on Netflix in the US, UK, and Canada.

According to the official synopsis, the film, which was directed by French director Jacques Audiard, follows the travels of four women in Mexico as they pursue their individual happiness.

Adriana Paz and Edgar Ramírez star alongside Gomez and Saldana in this musical series. “The fearsome cartel leader Emilia enlists Rita (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,” the official synopsis read.

Variety claims that this would be the streamer’s top Oscar candidate of the year. The musical drama has been positioned as one of the strongest options for the streaming behemoth, having demonstrated its mettle at Cannes. Karla Sofía Gascón, the movie’s star, claims that it combines elements of several genres, including humor, drama, action, and musical, without allowing any one of them overshadow the other.

“In the beginning of the film, Jessi is very much content with the life that she’s living with the family in Mexico, and that’s kind of where she was rooted,” Gomez stated in conversation with Netflix’s publication Tudum.

After outbidding multiple other studios for the acquisition rights to the movie in the US and UK, Netflix paid $8 million to close the deal.