Simply over a decade earlier than hitting this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Competition with the musical crime comedy Emilia Perez, Zoe Saldaña supported a unique crime movie on the Croisette.
Guillaume Canet’s star-studded Blood Ties targeted on Chris Pierzynski (Clive Owen) getting out of jail for a violent crime and shifting into the house of his brother, Frank (Billy Crudup), an NYPD detective. Co-starring Saldaña as Vanessa — who sparks a romance with Frank after he arrests the daddy of her little one — the movie additionally starred Mila Kunis, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Caan and Marion Cotillard, who’s Canet’s longtime accomplice. Canet helmed Blood Ties from a script he co-wrote with James Grey (who directed his personal Cotillard-starring drama, The Immigrant, which additionally premiered at Cannes in 2013).
Blood Ties hit theaters stateside in March 2014, and THR’s overview deemed it a “torpid, needlessly prolonged drama” however famous the “spectacular forged.”
Boasting its personal memorable forged is writer-director Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez, during which Saldaña stars reverse Selena Gomez, Édgar Ramírez and Karla Sofía Gascón. Set to premiere in competitors this 12 months, the Spanish-language musical facilities on an escaped Mexican cartel chief (Gascón) who seeks sex-reassignment surgical procedure to affirm her gender and discover a contemporary begin.