French pride at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, this twice-awarded film irritates the far right

French pride at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, this twice-awarded film irritates the far right



Emilia Pereza shocking success

The French contingent competing at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival was complete. In fact, there were six films made by French directors. Rough diamond by Agathe Riedinger, Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard, I love it, ugh by Gilles Lellouche, The substance by Coralie Fargeat, Marcello Mio by Christophe Honoré e The most precious of possessions by Michel Hazanavicius. Between these, The substance AND Emilia Perez they stood out on the list. Coralie Fargeat’s film thus received the award Screenplay Award. And that of Jacques Audiard Female Actor Award for its entire female cast as well as the Jury Prize.

However, the celebration ofEmilia Perezwhich will arrive in theaters on August 21, 2024, not everyone likes it. In fact, a part of the French far right, represented by Marion Maréchal, candidate in the European elections for Éric Zemmour’s Reconquête party, was outraged by the fact that the award for best actress was awarded to a trans woman, Karla Sofia Gasconholder of the title role ofEmilia Perez.

Emilia Perez (Karla Sofia Gascón) - Emilia Perez
Emilia Perez (Karla Sofía Gascón) – Emilia Perez ©Pathé

Overqualified and overexploited, Rita (Zoe Saldaña) uses his talent as a lawyer in the service of a large corporation more inclined to cover up criminals than to serve justice. But an unexpected exit door opens before her, which will help the leader of the Manitas cartel (Karla Sofía Gascón) to close the business and realize the plan she has been secretly perfecting for years: to finally become the woman she has always dreamed of being. .

Marion Maréchal makes criminal remarks

On May 26, the day after the winners of the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival were announced, Marine Le Pen’s granddaughter wrote about X (ex-Txitter):

A first attack and a mistake of fact. The Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón in fact completed her gender identity transition in 2018. With all due respect to Marion Maréchal, she is therefore, in fact, a woman and she is recognized as such. So, more actually than the Interpretation Award that was awarded to him, it is her existence and her freedom that do not go unnoticed by the man of the far right. She then reiterated her position on various televisions. In particular by establishing an idiotic and absurd comparison, imagining what we would say to her if she decided tomorrow to want to be recognized as age-65 in her example of her-of her that she would not be of her her of her … From biology to time of manipulation, Marion Maréchal mixes her brushes. Which would be simply ridiculous if her remarks didn’t fit the bill transphobic insult, and therefore a crime.

File complaints

In response to these discriminatory remarks, Karla Sofía Gascón filed a complaint for “sexist indignation” at the Paris Prosecutor’s Office. A complaint presented two days after six associations that defend the rights of LGBTQIA+ people presented a joint complaint for “transphobic insult“. Quoted in a press release issued by her lawyer, Karla Sofía Gascón had these words:

We need to put an end to this kind of talk.

It is deplorable that Marion Maréchal, between personal conviction and electoral maneuver, demonstrates her ordinary malice and stupidity to criticize an excellent cinematographic film and the extraordinary performance of its actress, which do honor to French cinema and pay homage to trans people. People who have always suffered and still today have suffered a lot of discrimination. But no one really doubts who, between these discriminatory remarks and Jacques Audiard’s beautiful film (here is our opinion), will emerge victorious and celebrated. situation.

Source: Cine Serie

You may also like