The choreographed spectacle of ‘Emilia Pérez’
LA Times“Emilia Pérez” transcends traditional narrative filmmaking to tell the story of a Mexican cartel leader who hires a lawyer to help her forever disappear and live her dream of transitioning into a woman. “Jacques wanted the actual drama to unfold during the musical pieces, so each song was a key moment to the storytelling,” Guilhaume says of the director. How one movement brings you to another movement, how a character brings movement to a fixed frame, or how a moving frame brings movement to a fixed situation,” Guilhaume says. During a scene where Jessi, the wife of the former drug kingpin, sings “Bienvenida,” the desire was to photographically “access her interiority through the dancers” as a way to metaphorically represent Jessi’s suppressed anger.
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