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Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez launches Oscar-tipped film at London Film Festival

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Emilia Pérez is a Spanish -language musical about a Mexican drug lord.

It stars Selena Gomez , Zoe Saldaña , Adriana Paz , Karla Sofía Gascón .

The four stars walked the red carpet at the London Film Festival on Friday .

The film is one of the breakout hits of the Cannes Film Festival .

Emilia Pérez has already been selected as France 's entry for the Oscars.

The film has been described as "amazingly confident it’s clever, earnest, ridiculous, knowing, forceful and absolutely bonkers" Critics have described the film as "a magnificent, genre-bending thrill ride that transcends the typical movie construct".