Emilia Pérez

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Emilia Pérez

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2024

2h 12m

Musical

Crime

Drama

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From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) enlists Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job, to help fake her death so that Emilia can finally live authentically as her true self.

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Critics Consensus

Karla Sofía Gascón is Emilia Perez in a swaggering musical crime thriller of genre-bending fascination that is also an unapologetically trans story.

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Audience Says

Zoe Saldaña shines in Emilia Perez, a bizarre musical that’s a heck of a head-scratcher.

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Sophia Satchell Baeza

Sight & Sound

Nov 20

This is bold, ambitious and risky filmmaking. Just don’t expect it all to land.

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Adam Nayman

Toronto Star

Jun 17

1/4

It’s a fine line between well-intentioned empathy and shameless exploitation, and Audiard never manages to find the right side of it. He’s also unable -- or maybe just unwilling -- to truly interrogate the ethical paradox at the heart of the story.

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Adam Kempenaar

Filmspotting

Feb 15

3.5/5

Whatever its failings are as a musical, Emilia Perez makes up for it as a tragic melodrama.

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Olivia Popp

Purple Hour

Nov 18

By its end, Emilia Pérez falls prey to traps around dangerous narratives of how the lives of trans women are meant to proceed.

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Ces Heredia

LatinaMedia.Co

Sep 1

Emilia Pérez is trash. No, I don’t care that it’s been nominated for thirteen Academy Awards and won a few Golden Globes. Yes, this is the hill I, a Mexican, have chosen to die on.

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Stephen Garrett

Book & Film Globe

Aug 26

5/5

A woozy doozy of a genre-busting musical, the bold and breathtaking Emilia Pérez swings for the fences with a lusty bluster.

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Dane K

Mar 1

Beautiful film! The music and message are fantastic. There's a reason this was in my top 5 films of 2024!

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Tina C

Mar 1

I had no idea Zoey could sing! I was captivated to the end.

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Travis K

Feb 28

This is like if The Rocky Horror Picture Show was in Spanish and go 13 Oscar Nominations! Completely Electric! Three brilliant performances by the three leads. Personally not my favorite of the 10 nominees but I think Emilia Perez definitely deserves the award recognition. I plan on seeing it on the big screen again. I loved the songs, all the choreography was very impressive. Mi Camino might be my personal favorite track. Go in with an open mind!

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j

Feb 21

Not the most exciting movie in the world

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Thomas A

Jan 19

Some admirable sequences and performances, but yeesh. The terrible script undermines any of the good work. Offensively mashes together very serious political human issues with a kind of bad soap opera plotting that has no idea what it's trying to say, and does a corny job saying even that much. One of the worst films I've seen. Jaw-droppingly bad and also just kinda boring. Given the subject matter it should have been riveting, but the execution felt like a bad tv special.

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Rob

Jan 14

Liked…great story and acting… everything was unexpected from the plot twist, singing and dancing …drama, action and music… the appeal is so broad… International hit!!!

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Synopsis

From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) enlists Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job, to help fake her death so that Emilia can finally live authentically as her true self.

Director: Jacques Audiard
Producer: Jacques Audiard, Valérie Schermann, Pascal Caucheteux, Anthony Vaccarello
Screenwriter: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Page 114, France 2 Cinéma, Pathé, Why Not Productions, Logical Content Ventures, Les Films du Fleuve, Pimienta Films
Rating: R (Sexual Material|Language|Some Violent Content)
Genre: Musical, Crime, Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 1, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 13, 2024
Runtime: 2h 12m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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