After an American incursion, westerns and muscular melodramas, the filmmaker had changed course with Les Olympiades, a more intimate account of daily life in black and white. But there was still a genre he hadn’t yet explored: the musical. To add this line to his CV, the filmmaker embarked on a “slightly crazy” musical adventure among Mexican drug traffickers, documented by Télérama in a five-part series. He will tell the story of Rita, a woman working in a large company in Mexico, responsible for helping a cartel leader to disappear to become the woman he has always dreamed of being. On Allociné, the synopsis Madame Doubtfire is as follows: “A fugitive escapes the law by changing her sex. Ten years later, she misses her children dearly and she returns to them pretending to be their aunt.” Still according to Télérama, the filmmaker would be very inspired by the work carried out by Clément Cogitore, who reinvented Les Indes galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau for the 3rd Stage of the Paris Opera. The youth took the Opéra Bastille and the Indies galantes documents this revolutionAlso see on KonbiniBut the surprise doesn’t stop there. According to Variety, the director has found his main interpreters in the person of Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Spanish transgender actress Karla Sofía Gascón. Written by his lifelong sidekick, screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, this musical titled In Search of Emilia Pérez, whose soundtrack was composed by singer Camille, should start shooting in the studio next April in Paris, and not more in Mexico as originally planned.Portrait: Lucie Zhang, the wise young girl who bursts the screen in Les Olympiades
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