Rita who is a lawyer in the service of a large firm more prone to clear criminals than to serve justice, is tasked with assisting an escaped Mexican cartel leader undergo sex reassignment surgery to both evade the authorities and affirm her gender.

Sharing the Best Actress award in Cannes among its ensemble cast, Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical is one of a kind. Storming spectacularly between cartel thriller, telenovela, and powerful ode to self-actualization, Emilia Pérez explodes onto screens like an unstoppable force of nature.