This year, she returns with the musical crime comedy ‘Emilia Perez,’ directed by Jacques Audiard.
This year, she returns with the musical crime comedy ‘Emilia Perez,’ directed by Jacques Audiard.
Just over a decade before hitting this year’s Cannes Film Festival with the musical crime comedy Emilia Perez, Zoe Saldaña supported a different crime film on the Croisette.
Guillaume Canet’s star-studded Blood Ties focused on Chris Pierzynski (Clive Owen) getting out of prison for a violent crime and moving into the home of his brother, Frank (Billy Crudup), an NYPD detective. Co-starring Saldaña as Vanessa — who sparks a romance with Frank after he arrests the father of her child — the film also starred Mila Kunis, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Caan and Marion Cotillard, who is Canet’s longtime partner. Canet helmed Blood Ties from a script he co-wrote with James Gray (who directed his own Cotillard-starring drama, The Immigrant, which also premiered at Cannes in 2013).
Blood Ties hit theaters stateside in March 2014, and THR’s review deemed it a “lethargic, needlessly extended drama” but noted the “impressive cast.”
Boasting its own memorable cast is writer-director Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez, in which Saldaña stars opposite Selena Gomez, Édgar Ramírez and Karla Sofía Gascón. Set to premiere in competition this year, the Spanish-language musical centers on an escaped Mexican cartel leader (Gascón) who seeks sex-reassignment surgery to affirm her gender and find a fresh start.