The film received a 9-minute standing ovation at the end of its screening at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the second-longest standing ovation for a Jacques Audiard film at Cannes after Rust and Bone (2012), which received a 10-minute standing ovation in 2012.
Just like her character in the film, Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón is also a trans woman in real life. This is the first film she starred in as an actress after announcing her transition in 2018. Before that, she had a long career as a male actor.
Jacques Audiard said he became inspired for the idea of the musical from a chapter in a novel about a drug trafficker who yearns to change his identity.
For their performances in the film, the female cast shared the Best Actress Award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and Karla Sofía Gascón became the first trans actor to win an acting prize at Cannes.