'Emilia Pérez' is Netflix's divisive musical about a trans ... - NPR
2 days ago · Emilia Pérez is Netflix's new divisive musical about a Mexican cartel boss who disappears from the criminal underworld to create a new life as a woman. But when her love for her kids proves ...
'Emilia Pérez' wouldn't work without Karla ... - Associated Press News
2 days ago · “Emilia Pérez,” which began streaming Wednesday on Netflix, is widely expected to be a best picture nominee. At the center of the “Emilia Pérez” phenomenon – which began with a barn-storming premiere at the Cannes Film Festival — is Gascón who plays both the menacing cartel kingpin Manitas and the woman who emerges after Manitas ...
Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez’s Netflix movie is a musical about a …
3 days ago · The entire first act of Emilia Pérez centers not on the title character but on Rita Moro Castro (Saldaña), a criminal defense attorney at a high-profile firm in Mexico City. When her sexist boss ...
Making of Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña on Making …
2 days ago · By Scott Roxborough. November 14, 2024. At its heart, Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard’s unclassifiable transgender Mexican cartel telenovela musical, is a film about transition, transformation ...
'Emilia Perez' ranges from gritty and gunshot-riddled, to ... - NPR
1 day ago · In Jacques Audiard's melodrama Emilia Perez, a prosecutor gets an unusual request from the head of a Mexican cartel. He wants help transitioning out of his life of crime and his life as a man.
‘Emilia Perez’ Ending and Empty Symbolism, Explained - Vulture
1 day ago · In turning Emilia into a Virgin the film celebrates her — and her redeemed motherhood. Guadalupe is an icon of mestizaje: part white and part indigenous, she is a maternal symbol who brings ...
Jacques Audiard on ‘Emilia Pérez’ and Learning to Make a Musical
20 hours ago · Nov. 15, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET. The French filmmaker Jacques Audiard is known for hard-hitting crime dramas with incisive social commentary. He doesn’t often enjoy musicals and doesn’t speak ...
Emilia Pérez Is an Exuberant Ode to Human Possibility - TIME
2 days ago · Emilia Pérez premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last May; it won the Jury Prize, and its four women actors, Gascón, Saldaña, Gomez, and Paz, took home a combined Best Actress award. I saw ...
‘Emilia Pérez’ Review: A Crime Boss Who Can Sing and Dance
3 days ago · In the floridly off-kilter “Emilia Pérez,” the director Jacques Audiard throws so much at you — gory crime-scene photos, a menacing cartel boss, a singing-and-dancing Zoe Saldaña — that ...
'Emilia Pérez' review: A Mexican drug lord comes out as a trans …
4 days ago · Both are wonderfully played by the Spanish-born trans actress Karla Sofia Gascon. Although her identity has changed, Emilia can't abandon all of her old life. She wants to be with the children she ...