Madonna had nothing but words of praise for Selena Gomez’ new film, Emilia Pérez.
The Queen of Pop, 66, declared the Jacques Audiard-directed flick a ‘masterpiece’ with ‘unbelievable performances’ in new Instagram posts.
The Papa Don’t Preach hitmaker shared four social media Stories, after she partied with the cast following the film’s screening at New York Film Festival on Monday.
In one photo she stood next to Selena, as they posed with the film’s other stars Edgar Ramirez, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz as well as dancer and choreographer Damien Jalet.
Madonna looked radiant, wearing a cozy black fur jacket and a layer of silver chains around her neck.
Madonna, 66, had words of praise for Selena Gomez’ new film, Emilia Pérez, calling the flick a ‘masterpiece’ with ‘unbelievable performances’ in new Instagram posts
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Her blonde tresses were parted in the middle and cascaded down in waves.
The star also shared two posters for the film on her Instagram Stories.
‘Wow,’ she wrote in pink letters on one of the posters.
Selena stars as Jessi Del Monte, a transgender Mexican cartel leader’s wife, in Audiard’s critically-acclaimed film hitting select theaters November 1 before streaming November 13 on Netflix.
‘Making this film was worth all the blood, sweat and tears,’ Gomez – who boasts 648.8M social media followers – gushed last week.
‘I am extremely proud of this project, Jacques, @karsiagascon @zoesaldana @adytapaz @edgarramirez25 (the entire family) and cannot wait for you all to see it! This movie changed my life!’
Emilia Pérez currently has a ‘certified fresh’ 87% critic approval rating (out of 63 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes.
Gascón plays her onscreen wife Emilia Pérez. Ramírez stars as Gustavo Brun while Zoe plays Rita Moro Castro.
She shared four Stories to her Instagram, after she partied with the cast following the film’s screening at New York Film Festival on Monday; seen hugging choreographer Damien Jalet
The star also shared two posters for the film on her Instagram Stories
‘Wow,’ she wrote in pink letters on one of the posters
Selena stars as Jessi Del Monte, a transgender Mexican cartel leader’s wife, in Jacques Audiard’s critically-acclaimed film hitting select theaters November 1 before streaming November 13 on Netflix
Saldana has a supporting role in the edgy film
She portrays male cartel leader Juan ‘Small Hands’ Del Monte who transitions to female Emilia.
Meanwhile Ramírez portrays Gustavo Brun in the Spanish-language film.
Saldana has a supporting role in the edgy film.
The Emilia Pérez cast will next head to Northern California this Saturday for the Mill Valley Film Festival, which will honor the cast with the outstanding ensemble performance trophy.
The first trailer for Emilia Perez from Netflix was shared in August.
The film is based on Audiard’s opera libretto of the same name, which was in turn loosely adapted from Boris Razon’s 2018 novel Écoute.
According to IMDB the synopsis of the film is: ‘Lawyer Rita receives an unexpected offer.’
‘She has to help a feared cartel boss retire from his business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he’s always dreamed of being.’
Back in May, the stars of the film – pictured left to right: Selena, Edgar and Saldana – attended the premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France
In the film Rita is tasked with assisting the escaped cartel leader Emilia with undergoing sex reassignment surgery in order to both evade the authorities and affirm her gender.
Back in May, the stars of the film attended the premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
It was there where Gomez had wiped away tears from her eyes after received an impressive nine-minute standing ovation.
Hulu subscribers can currently catch Selena as artist Mabel Mora in the 10-episode fourth season of Only Murders in the Building, which streams every Tuesday.