After making its debut eventually yr’s Cannes Movie Pageant with Jean-Luc Godard’s final work and Pedro Almodóvar’s “Unusual Approach of Life,” Anthony Vaccarello‘s Saint Laurent Productions has boarded Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez” as a co-producer.

The musical thriller joins Saint Laurent Productions’ roster of status tasks, together with Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope,” David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds,” and the subsequent movies from Abel Ferrara, Wong Kar Wai, Jim Jarmusch and Gaspar Noé.

“Emilia Perez” is a musical thriller boasting a world solid led by Karla Sofia Gascón, Zoe Saldana (“Avatar”), Selena Gomez (“Solely Murders within the Constructing”), Edgar Ramirez (“Carlos”) and Adriana Paz. The film is co-produced with French manufacturing firm Why Not Productions and Web page 114, along with Pathé and France 2 Cinema. Pathé has acquired French distribution rights and can launch the film in French theaters.

The film, which Audiard described as an “opera libretto in 4 acts,” stars Gascón, a rising Argentinian trans actor, as a feared Mexican cartel chief who undergoes a intercourse change to get away from the legislation, turning into the lady he’s at all times needed to be.

The Palme d’Or profitable director assembled a stellar inventive group, together with composer Clement Ducol, singer, songwriter/composer Camille, and choreographer Damien Jalet. Vaccarell created the costumes for the flicks.

Saint Laurent Productions is first movie manufacturing firm launched by a vogue home. When unveiling the corporate final yr, Vaccarello mentioned it would give him “the chance to broaden the imaginative and prescient I’ve for Saint Laurent by means of a medium that has extra permanence than garments.”

“You possibly can nonetheless see a movie in 10 or 30 years if it’s good. In some methods, making a movie could be extra impactful than a seasonal assortment. For me it’s a pure extension to a different area of creativity that maybe is extra common and well-liked,” mentioned the Belgian native, who grew to become the creative director of Saint Laurent in 2016.