Dying
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Overqualified and underappreciated, lawyer Rita (Zoe Saldaña) is more interested in getting criminals off the hook than bringing them to justice. One day, she is given an unexpected way out when the drug lord Manitas (Karla Sofía Gascón) hires her to help him realise his secret plan. Manitas wants to withdraw from the cartel, embrace her true self and finally become a woman. Then there are Manitas’ children and wife Jessi (Selena Gomez). This year’s French Oscar contender is a lavish and challenging pop opera marking the directorial comeback of Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust and Bone, Dheepan) after nine years. Premiering in Cannes, the perennial Cannes-favourite Audiard’s latest feature received the Jury Prize and the Best Actress award (Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Adriana Paz).
Jacques Audiard (Paris, 1952) is a French director, producer and screenwriter, known for his signature style employing the genre aesthetics in making socio-existential dramas with complex characters on society’s margins. He is the author of films See How They Fall (1994), A Self-Made Hero (Cannes 1996 – Best Screenplay), Read My Lips (2001), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), A Prophet (2009), Rust and Bone (2012), and Dheepan (Cannes 2015 – Golden Palm).