Two Spaniards will compete for the César Awards, those equivalent to the Goya Awards of French Cinema, as announced by the Academy on Wednesday. Karla Sofía Gascón aspires to César for the best female interpretation for her work in the drug trafficking Emilia Pérez, of Jacques Audiard. Meanwhile, Elena López Riera will compete in the category of Best Documentary Short Film with The southern girlfriends, which premiered at the last Cannes Festival.
Emilia Pérez He tells Rita’s story, a lawyer played by Zoe Saldaña (also a candidate for protagonist actress), who is hired to work with a Mexican drug trafficking poster: her leader, Manitas wants to undergo a gender transition. Years later, turned into Emilia Pérez (the two characters gives Gascon life), contact the lawyer to meet with her family.
The film, which has given much to talk about, brings together 12 nominations for this award and 13 for the Oscars. In spite of everything, it has not surpassed other films such as nominations such as nominations such as The Count of Montecristo, of Matthieu Broken heartsby Gilles Lellouche, with 13. The latter premieres in Spain this Friday.
For its part, The southern girlfriends He appeared in Cannes and also opts in the Goya to the prize for the best short documentary. It is a piece in which mature women openly reflect on their sexuality and their sentimental life. López Riera debuted in the length with The waterof 2022, also released in the French contest, and that deals with the threat of a storm and a flood in a town where there is a belief that the river is taken to women, because they have “the water inside”.
In the best film category, the nominees have been The Count of Montecristo, High (premieres in Spain on March 28), Misericordia (premiere, on March 21), Souleymane’s story (premiere, April 16) and Emilia Pérez. Pedro Almodóvar stays out of the best foreign film nominations with The next roomcategory in which they will compete Aor, The seed of the sacred fig, The Apprentice, The substance y The area of interest.