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Chronology
Emilia Pérez follows four extraordinary women in Mexico, each searching for their own happiness. Cartel leader Emilia enlists Rita, an underrated lawyer, to help her fake her death so she can finally live authentically as herself. Karla Sofia Gascón talks about the two years of preparation that characterized this challenging role in Jacques Audiard’s film and the two extremes of her personality that she had to interpret as Emilia and Manita. Jacques Audiard said he got the idea for the musical from a chapter in the novel about a drug dealer who wants to change his identity.
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Latino Slant Appears: La Bamba Remake, Tarantino Has a BIG Mouth, Jenna’s PICY & Selena Dance! (2024). Dalmais), Clément Ducol and Jacques Audiard and stars Zoe Saldana. Quite an enjoyable film with two challenging leads and two supporting roles that require great performers.
This quartet in 2024
The first two are played by Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofia Gascón, the second by Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz. She shared the best actress award at Cannes. They deserve it. Above all else, Saldaña is a revelation from writer-director Jacques Audiard’s previous films ( The Beat that My Heart Skip , The Prophet , Rust and Bone , and Brothers and Sisters ), each memorable in its own way.
Otherwise, the songs drag the film down
None of them prepared me for this, so kudos to him for not getting bogged down in the genre. Emilia Pérez has a lot of history and a lot of singing. When the singing is combined with Damien Jalet’s sharp choreography, the effect is inspiring. They are light musical theater, they don’t go deep, so they don’t meet the dramatic demands placed on them.
It’s a strangely dark vision to present in a musical
They do best in the rap style, where the beat is the most important element. Emilia Pérez’s moral seems to be that we can never free ourselves from the past, change who we are or what we want.