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Emilia Perez review: Oscar frontrunner is a reductive take on the trans experience – starring a miscast Selena Gomez
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Emilia Perez review: Oscar frontrunner is a reductive take on the trans experience – starring a miscast Selena Gomez

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It’s a frontrunner for Best Picture at the Oscars, a florid …

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The 2025 Oscars BuzzMeter: What’s getting the buzz so far?
1 month ago

The 2025 Oscars BuzzMeter: What’s getting the buzz so far?

LA Times  

The Buzz is back! Mike Leigh — “Hard Truths” “Because of the scale and scope of ‘The Brutalist,’ Venice best director winner Brady Corbet could beat out Sean Baker and Jacques Audiard, but it’s a close race. Marianne Jean-Baptiste — “Hard Truths” “It’s ‘Anora’ vs. ‘Emilia Pérez’ again as Mikey Madison and Karla Sofía Gascón battle. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor — “Nickel …

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It’s hard to pin down the music of ‘Emilia Pérez’
1 month ago

It’s hard to pin down the music of ‘Emilia Pérez’

LA Times  

“Emilia Pérez” is not what most would conjure when thinking of a movie musical. They crafted a suite of songs in a spectrum of genres, including two that demonstrate the film’s range: the self-actualization pop ballad “Mi Camino,” performed by Gomez, as the wife of the cartel boss, via karaoke; and the showstopping, rock-rap denunciation of poisonous hypocrisy, “El Mal,” …

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Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez’s Netflix movie is a musical about a trans drug lord. It … rips?
1 month, 1 week ago

Emilia Pérez: Selena Gomez’s Netflix movie is a musical about a trans drug lord. It … rips?

Slate  

From the first frames of Emilia Pérez, writer-director Jacques Audiard makes it clear this is going to be a musical. The story, part crime caper, part domestic melodrama, part meditation on the mystery of selfhood, will involve suspense, disguised identity, the search for redemption, tragic hubris—a full complement of themes from genres as divergent as film noir and the kind …

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‘Emilia Pérez’ wouldn’t work without Karla Sofía Gascón. Now, she could make trans history
1 month, 1 week ago

‘Emilia Pérez’ wouldn’t work without Karla Sofía Gascón. Now, she could make trans history

Associated Press  

TORONTO — Karla Sofía Gascón’s performance in “Emilia Pérez” as a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirmation surgery to become a woman has brought her global acclaim and set Gascón on a path that may make her the first openly transgender actor ever nominated for an Oscar. There are things that make you happy and instead they make you …

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'Emilia Pérez' wouldn't work without Karla Sofía Gascón. Now, she could make trans history
1 month, 1 week ago

'Emilia Pérez' wouldn't work without Karla Sofía Gascón. Now, she could make trans history

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Karla Sofía Gascón’s performance in …

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Emilia Pérez movie review: Karla Sofia Gascón and Zoe Saldaña’s narco-musical melange is an acquired taste
1 month, 1 week ago

Emilia Pérez movie review: Karla Sofia Gascón and Zoe Saldaña’s narco-musical melange is an acquired taste

The Hindu  

French director Jacques Audiard embarks on his latest jaunt that’s part telenovela, part musical, and entirely a potpourri of genre-hopping that meanders between amusing and exhausting. If a film about a ruthless Mexican drug lord turned flamboyant philanthropist through gender-affirming surgery sounds outlandish, rest assured, Audiard’s first tryst with the musical genre is unapologetically, sometimes breathtakingly, so. At the film’s …

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'Emilia Pérez' trans narco musical actress calls for 'living our own life'
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Emilia Pérez' trans narco musical actress calls for 'living our own life'

NPR  

'Emilia Pérez' trans narco musical actress calls for 'living our own life' toggle caption Shanna Besson/Page 114, Why Not Productions, Pathé Films, France 2 Cinéma Karla Sofia Gascón is living the time of her life. Sponsor Message When we first meet Gascón's character, she is known as "Manitas" del Monte, a Mexican cartel leader who rules by fear and deadly …

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Review: In ‘Emilia Pérez,’ a musical heightened by danger, passion pours out like a confession
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Review: In ‘Emilia Pérez,’ a musical heightened by danger, passion pours out like a confession

LA Times  

A lawyer, a kingpin and his wife walk into a musical, and “Emilia Pérez” is born, Frenchman Jacques Audiard’s full-bodied, colorful epic about transformation, redemption and finding one’s voice in a hard world. Never one to ignore how rich the crime genre can be in girding his tales of pain and release, the writer-director has taken his biggest swing yet …

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Cannes best actress winner Karla Sofía Gascón sues French politician following "transphobic insult"
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Cannes best actress winner Karla Sofía Gascón sues French politician following "transphobic insult"

Salon  

Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón — who won best actress along with "Emilia Pérez" co-stars Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Zoe Saldaña at this year's Cannes film festival — has filed a lawsuit against a far-right French politician who publicly criticized her historic win. "It is therefore a man who receives the prize for female interpretation at Cannes," Marion Maréchal, …

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