‘Emilie Perez‘, the musical comedy of Jacques Audiard star actresses Karla Sofia Gascón, Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gómezrecorded in Spanish, will be France’s candidate in the elections Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
The National Center for Cinematography of France (CNC) announced this Wednesday the selection of this film, recalling in a press release that since its premiere in France on August 21, they have already seen it. 750,000 spectators.
CNC President Olivier Henrard praised the “difficult task” faced by the eleven-member commission tasked with choosing which of the four candidates would be nominated by France. They also competed with “Emilia Pérez”Everything we imagine as light‘by Payal Kapadia,’The Count of Monte Cristo‘, by Mathieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière and ‘Mercy», by Alain Guiraudie.
For Henrard, the four finalists show “the extreme variety of their stories and its realization, the totality, but also the diversity of French cinema and the efficiency of the ecosystem which brings it to life.
