Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez 'shines' in Oscar-tipped musical

The singer and actress stars in Emilia Pérez, a new Netflix musical which has been tipped for awards.

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On Wednesday, the Spanish-language musical is released worldwide on Netflix as the film awards race continues to heat up ahead of the Oscars in March.

Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz launched the movie at the London Film Festival last month, where it continued to build its momentum.

Emilia Pérez follows a dangerous Mexican Cartel leader (played by Gascón), who asks a high-powered lawyer named Rita (Saldaña) to help him fake his own death.

But the reason he wants to retire and disappear from the world of crime isn't what you might expect - the drug baron wants to change gender and live a new life as a woman.

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