“Visually stunning and extremely deep”: Rated 4.1 out of 5, this is a must-see movie this week!

Presented and crowned at the recent Cannes Film Festival, where the Jury Prize and the Best Actress Prize for its performers Zoe Saldana, Carla Sofia Gascon and Selena Gomez, Emilia Perez came out this week. Directed by Jacques Audiard, this new gem, which combines various genres including musical drama, has been very well received by the French press, with an average rating of 4.1 out of 5.

It’s the best movie of the week, but also the fourth best movie of the year behind No Evil, Dune: Part Two and The Zone of Interest.

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Overqualified and overexploited, Rita uses her talents as a lawyer in the service of a large firm more bent on outlawing criminals than justice. But an unexpected exit door opens for her, helping the cartel leader, Manitas, to get out of business and implement a plan she’s been secretly working on for years: finally becoming the woman she’s always dreamed of.

What does the press think?

According to the part of the gang:

“Emilia Perez is destiny, strong, courageous and a survivor.” By Ann-Claire Ciutat – 5/5

According to CinemaTeaser:

“Visceral and melodic, delicate and raw, brutal and moving. Half Almodovar, half Michael Mann. Crazy.” By Renan Cross – 5/5

According to the latest news from Alsace:

“In the battle between determinism and free will, Emilia Perez combines musical comedy, drama and thriller for a total cinematic and virtuosic work. by Thibaut Lis – 5/5

According to Le Parisien:

“The director has created a huge, visually stunning and extremely deep film.” by Catherine Ball – 5/5

According to this:

“What a great movie!” by DB – 5/5

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According to South West:

“Jacques Audiard signs a dazzling and moving film beyond genres, between thriller, melodrama, musical comedy, transcendence.” Julien Rousset – 4/5

According to Télérama:

“After all these years of watching men fall, Audiard watches women struggle in this transgender musical, part melodrama, part film noir.” By Marie Sauvion – 4/5

According to Le Monde:

“To appreciate the spectacle, one must leave the demand for realism and truth in the dressing room and consider under the auspices of dissonance and ‘impurity’ the sentimental energy and archetypal sources that drive the dramaturgy.” by J. Ma – 4/5

According to Ecran Large:

It’s hard to fault Jacques Audiard for his thirst for experimentation and the energy of his musical passages that outshine his actors. But Emilia Perez is too heterogeneous and binary for a work on the fluidity of genres (in every sense of the term). .” by Antoine Desrus – 3/5

According to Critikat.com:

“Straining the song and abandoning its old reflexes (which are galloping back) is not enough to profoundly transform Audiari’s cinema, always in search of its ‘reset’.” by Jose Morel – 2/5