During the press conference of the 22nd edition of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM)which took place this morning at a movie theater complex in Carso Squareit was announced that Emilia Pérez (2024) de Jacques Audiard It would be the inaugural film of the FICM.
“Thanks to the support of Zima Entertainment (…) it will be screened at the Opening Ceremony of our 22nd edition, an event that will take place on the evening of October 18 in Morelia with the presence of the acclaimed French director, and the extraordinary actresses Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz, and the actor Edgar Ramírez,” reads the statement.
“Emilia Pérez, a Mexican co-production, will be the opening film. We will have the presence of the director and cast.
For the whole country, there will be some free programming features on the platform of the #Imcine, @nuestrocinemx.”
– Daniela Michel, Director of the @FICM pic.twitter.com/zSslrneNzk
— IMCINE (@imcine) September 23, 2024
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The production of the “multi-award-winning French director and screenwriter”, already classified as a musical and criminal comedy, has just won the Jury Prize and Best Actress Award in it 2024 Cannes Film Festival. It tells the story of Rita, “an overqualified and underestimated lawyer employed by a large law firm that is more interested in freeing criminals than bringing them to justice.”
At one point, Rita “is presented with an unexpected opportunity when the leader of a cartel, Manitas, hires her to help him retire from his business and carry out a plan he has been secretly preparing for years: to become the woman he has always dreamed of.”
In addition to the actresses and the aforementioned actor, the cast is completed by the singer Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana, Mark Ivanir and in supporting roles James Gerard, Shiraz Tzarfati, Agathe Bokja, Anabel Lopez, Eduardo Aladro, Line Phé, Cyrus Khodoveisi, Yohan Levy, Daniel Velasco-Acosta and Jonas Paz-Benavides.
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Audiard He also served as a scriptwriter for Emilia Pérez, thus adding another work to his long career in that profession in films directed by filmmakers such as Claude Miller, Denys Granier-Deferre and Élisabeth Rappeneauto name a few. Furthermore, this important fact, that his film was chosen to open one of the most important festivals in Mexico and Latin America, occurs 30 years after his debut as a director, when he released Regarde les hommes tomber, in 1994.
Finally, Daniela Michel, director of the FICM, He said during the conference that “for the entire country there will be some free screenings of the program on the Imcine platform, @nuestrocinemx.” The 22nd edition of this festival will take place between October 18 and 27 “in face-to-face screenings in the Mexican capital and virtual screenings through nuestrocine.mx”.
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2024-09-26 17:55:30