Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez star in Netflix's new ‘Emilia Pérez’ trailer

Netflix secured the rights to the French-directed cartel-inspired musical thriller, which took major Cannes Film Festival awards earlier this year

A blistering new Netflix trailer starring Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez place the American actors at the center of a Spanish-language musical crime comedy heralded as an “audacious fever dream.” “Emilia Pérez,” which recently took special awards at the Cannes Film Festival, introduces the concept of “halves” set against a monotone backdrop. Character portraits are revealed in their half-assuming identity before the name of the film emerges — gunfire and bloodshed follow.

Netflix outbid its competitors for the Oscar poised contender at $8 million following its Cannes debut. Though “Emilia Pérez” centers a Mexican storyline, the majority of filming took place in a French studio at the request of Audiard, who said filming in Mexico would have been “a challenge,” according to Agence France-Presse.

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