Emilia Pérez

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Emilia Pérez
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jacques Audiard
Written byJacques Audiard
Based on
  • Emilia Pérez
    by Jacques Audiard
  • Écoute
    by Boris Razon
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Paul Guilhaume [1]
Edited by Juliette Welfling
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byPathé Distribution
Release dates
  • 18 May 2024 (2024-05-18)(Cannes)
  • 21 August 2024 (2024-08-21)(France)
Running time
132 minutes
CountryFrance
Languages
Budget€25 million (~$26 million) [5]
Box office$15.4 million [6]

Emilia Pérez (Latin American Spanish: [eˈmiljaˈpeɾes] ) is a 2024 Spanish-language French musical crime film written and directed by Jacques Audiard. It is based on Audiard's opera libretto of the same name, which he loosely adapted from a chapter of the 2018 novel Écoute by French writer Boris Razon. The film follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who aims to disappear and transition into a woman with the help of a lawyer (Zoe Saldaña). Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Mark Ivanir, and Édgar Ramírez also appear in starring roles.

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Emilia Pérez had its world premiere on 18 May 2024 at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize and the Best Actress award for its female ensemble. It was theatrically released by Pathé in France on 21 August 2024. The film received generally positive reviews from critics in the United States and Europe, who praised the direction, music, performances and themes, but was universally panned by general audiences (particularly for the songwriting quality) and received low audience scores on aggregators such as Rotten Tomatoes. [7] [8] In Mexico, the film was panned by both audiences and critics, who criticized its cultural misrepresentation, songwriting, use of stereotypes, and Spanish dialogue. [9] Some LGBTQ commentators were also critical of its depiction of trans people. [10] [11]

Despite the polarized response, Emilia Pérez earned numerous accolades. At the 97th Academy Awards, the film led with 13 nominations and won two: Best Supporting Actress for Saldaña and Best Original Song for "El Mal". At the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, the film won four awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Foreign Language Film, from 10 nominations. It also received 11 nominations at the 78th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, winning two.

Plot

Rita Mora Castro, a struggling attorney in Mexico City, leads the defense in a murder case involving a prominent media figure's wife. Against her own conscience, Rita proceeds to argue that the woman died by suicide ("El alegato"). After winning the case, Rita receives an anonymous call with a mysterious but lucrative offer. Reflecting on her discontent, she agrees to a meeting ("Todo y nada"). Her client, revealed to be cartel kingpin Juan "Manitas" Del Monte, expresses the desire to covertly undergo gender-affirming surgery and begin a new and authentic life ("El encuentro") as a woman.

After consulting with doctors in Bangkok ("La vaginoplastia") and Tel Aviv ("Lady"), Rita finds a surgeon who agrees to perform the procedure after hearing Manitas's recollections of gender dysphoria during childhood ("Deseo"). Following the procedure, Manitas's wife, Jessi, and their children are relocated to Switzerland. Jessi pleads to go to the United States to be with her sister instead, but she is told that Switzerland was chosen for their safety. Rita is paid an exorbitant sum for her services. Meanwhile, Manitas fakes his death and begins a new life as Emilia Pérez.

Four years later in London, Rita encounters Emilia, who wants to reunite with her children ("Por casualidad"). Rita arranges for Jessi and the children to return to Mexico City to live with Emilia, introducing her as a distant, wealthy cousin of Manitas who has volunteered to help raise the children. Jessi does not recognize Emilia and opposes the arrangement, ultimately agreeing to return to Mexico only to reunite with Gustavo Brun, a past lover with whom she had an affair during the later years of her marriage ("Bienvenida").

Adjusting to their new life in Mexico, Rita and Emilia have a chance encounter with the mother of a missing child. Emilia reflects on her criminal past ("Mis siete hermanos y yo"). Later, as she is putting her son to bed, he says he still recognizes her scent ("Papá"). Remorseful, Emilia uses her connections with incarcerated cartel members to create a nonprofit that identifies the bodies of cartel victims ("Para") in order to return them to their families. Rita and Emilia collaborate in building the nonprofit and recruiting donors, some of whom, Rita notes, are dangerous and corrupt ("El mal"). Epifanía, a woman whose abusive husband's remains were identified by the nonprofit, meets with Emilia to confirm his death. The two subsequently begin a relationship ("El amor").

Meanwhile, Jessi continues rekindling her relationship with Gustavo ("Mi camino"). She tells Emilia that the two plan to marry and move the family to a new home. When Emilia refers to the children as "mine" and becomes physically aggressive, Jessi flees with the children. After Emilia cuts off Jessi's allowance and threatens Gustavo into leaving Mexico, Jessi and Gustavo kidnap Emilia and demand ransom from Rita. She receives a package with a few of Emilia's severed fingers. Arriving at the designated location, Rita attempts to negotiate with Gustavo, but a shootout ensues with the security team Rita has hired to rescue Emilia.

Emilia finally reveals her true identity to Jessi, recounting intimate details of their first meeting and their wedding day ("Perdóname"). Gustavo and a confused Jessi load Emilia into the trunk of Gustavo's car and drive off. As Jessi slowly realizes what has happened, she becomes guilt-ridden and orders Gustavo to pull over, holding him at gunpoint. As the two struggle for the gun, the car veers off the road, killing Gustavo, Jessi, and Emilia.

Rita, devastated over Emilia's death, tells Jessi's children what has happened and offers to be their guardian. Epifanía marches in the street singing Emilia's eulogy and celebrating her fight for truth and freedom ("Las damas que pasan").

Cast

Production

Development

Composers Clement Ducol and Camille Dalmais at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival Clement Ducol and Camille Dalmais the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival 2.jpg
Composers Clément Ducol and Camille Dalmais at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival

In January 2022, Télérama published a series of five-episode articles covering in detail Jacques Audiard's pre-production process. [14] Audiard developed the screenplay from what was originally intended to be an opera libretto in four acts. [15] The title character was inspired by a chapter from Boris Razon's 2018 novel Écoute. [16] [17] Emilia Pérez marks the first time Audiard has written a film alone. Previous co-writer Thomas Bidegain serves as a creative collaborator. [18]

Clément Ducol composed the original score, while Ducol and French singer Camille composed the original songs. Camille wrote the lyrics to the songs in Spanish with the assistance of a Mexican translator, and performed on the demo. [19] Damien Jalet choreographed the musical sequences. [15] Anthony Vaccarello, of fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, created the costumes. [20]

Filming

Production was initially to begin in autumn 2022 but was delayed six months due to varying scheduling conflicts with the cast members. [21] [22] It was originally set to take place on location in Mexico but was moved to the Studios de Bry-Sur-Marne near Paris instead, [23] in accordance with Audiard's wishes. [21] The interior scenes included a reconstruction of an "authentic Mexican backdrop". [18] Audiard stated that the studio setting would afford him the ability to "produce more form" and give him "more freedom for the parts that are sung and choreographed". [15]

Principal photography began in May 2023 in the Île-de-France region, before wrapping on 5 July 2023. [24] [25] [26] The film is produced by Pascal Caucheteux through his company Why Not Productions, and also by Audiard and Valérie Schermann through their company Page 114; [18] in co-production with Pathé, France 2 Cinéma, and Vaccarello's Saint Laurent Productions, a division of Yves Saint Laurent. [20]

Gascón wished to portray Emilia Pérez both in the pre-surgery and post-surgery stages. [27]

Music

The soundtrack album features the film's original songs performed by cast members Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Mark Ivanir, Adriana Paz and others, as well as the original score composed by Ducol and Camille. The soundtrack was first released digitally on 31 October 2024 by Sony Masterworks. [28] An extended play (EP) featuring a selection of five songs from the soundtrack–"El alegato", "Para", "Papá", "El mal" and "Las damas que pasan"–was released earlier on 5 September 2024. [29]

Release

Audiard and the cast of Emilia Perez (from left to right: Zoe Saldana, Edgar Ramirez, Adriana Paz, Karla Sofia Gascon, and Selena Gomez) at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival Emilia Perez Cannes 2024.jpg
Audiard and the cast of Emilia Pérez (from left to right: Zoe Saldaña, Édgar Ramírez, Adriana Paz, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Selena Gomez) at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

Emilia Pérez was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 18 May 2024. [30] The film received a standing ovation. [31] [32]

Shortly after its premiere, Netflix beat out multiple studios and was in negotiations to acquire distribution rights to the film for North America and the United Kingdom for $12 million; the deal ultimately closed at $8 million instead. [33] [34] [35] The film was theatrically released in France on 21 August 2024 by Pathé. [36] World sales for international distribution were handled by The Veterans. [21]

The film made its North American premiere at the 51st Telluride Film Festival. [37] It played at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2024, [38] at the San Sebastián International Film Festival ('Perlak' section), [39] and it was selected in Icons at the 29th Busan International Film Festival to be screened in October 2024. [40] Emilia Pérez has also been selected for the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024 under the World Cinema section. [41] The film opened the 22nd Morelia International Film Festival in October 2024. [42] [43] It received a limited theatrical release in the United States and Canada on 1 November, before debuting on Netflix on 13 November in the US, UK, and Canada. [44]

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 72% of 262 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.7/10.The website's consensus reads: "Karla Sofía Gascón is Emilia Pérez in a swaggering musical crime thriller of genre-bending fascination that is also an unapologetically trans story." [45] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 55 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [46] On AlloCiné, the film received an average rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 38 reviews from French critics. [47]

Kevin Maher from The Times rated the film 5 out of 5 stars, stating "this mad musical is one of the year's best films." [48] Stephanie Zacharek of Time considered that a film such as Emilia Pérez feels "fierce and glorious, a radical act of the imagination with kindness in its heart". [49] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times determined that "it's Gascón's performance that centers and grounds the story". [50] Richard Brody of The New Yorker lamented that the film "presents twists and turns that exhaust themselves in the strain to stoke excitement; the movie is a wild ride to nowhere". [51] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, billing it as a "slightly bizarre yet watchable musical", also writing that Gascón "carries it off with queenly flair". [52]

Leonard Maltin called the film "unique and amazing", writing: "Phrases like 'game-changer' and 'cutting-edge' can’t capture just how audacious and original Emilia Pérez is. [It's] a knock-out." [53] Peter Travers described the film as an "unmissable movie event", writing: "You've never seen anything like Jacques Audiard's Spanish musical about violent passions starring Zoë Saldaña, Selena Gomez and trans actress Karla Sofia Gascón in career-defining performances that take a piece out of you. This you don't want to miss." [54]

Lists

British film magazine Sight and Sound included the film in its 50 Best Films of 2024 list. [55] American director John Waters placed the film in his Top 10 list of the best films of 2024. [56] The film is included in Time 's Top 10 list of the best films of 2024. [57] It ranks No. 8 in Fotogramas ' list of Top 10 Films of 2024. [58] Deadline Hollywood film critics Damon Wise and Stephanie Bunbury have the film in each of their Top 10 lists. [59] It ranks at No. 46 and No. 47 in The Guardian 's US and UK lists respectively. [60] [61]

Industry response

Filmmakers Taylor Hackford and Denis Villeneuve both cited Emilia Pérez as one of their favorite films of 2024. [62] [63] James Cameron, who worked with Zoe Saldaña on the Avatar films, praised the film, calling it "bold" and "daring". [64] Emily Blunt called the film "a singular experience". [65] Meryl Streep praised the film and Gomez's performance, describing it as "beautiful, smudged, sensual, incredible". [66] Director Michael Mann called it a "contemporary masterpiece". Fellow directors Paul Schrader, Maggie Betts, R.J. Cutler, Drew Goddard, Michael Gracey, Reinaldo Marcus Green and Nicole Holofcener listed the film as one of their favorites of 2024. [67] Madonna, America Ferrera, Daisy Ridley, Eva Longoria, Jason Reitman, Jeremy O. Harris, Oliver Stone and other industry figures have also expressed admiration for the film. [68] [69]

Contrasting to the positive industry reaction, the reception found within Mexico's cultural sector was divided. [70] Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro remarked, "It's so beautiful to see a movie that is cinema". [71] Furthermore, Mexican director and writer Issa López praised the film, calling it a "masterpiece". [72] Conversely, Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto described the experience of watching the film as offensive and "completely inauthentic". [73] [74] Gomez's performance and Spanish diction, which generated abundant memes, [74] were described as "indefensible" by Eugenio Derbez, who later retracted after a greatly polarised online response. [75]

Transgender representation

Critics and advocacy organisations in and from the LGBTQ community have been much more critical. Speaking for NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, critic Reanna Cruz said that "it seemed like the filmmaker was painting trans women as liars", while GLAAD called it "a profoundly retrograde portrayal of a trans woman" and "a step backward for trans representation". [76] [11] Drew Burnett Gregory, writing for Autostraddle , asked, "How many times do cis people have to learn about us before a portrayal like this one rings as false to them as it does to me?" [77] Editors of the American LGBT magazine Them claimed the film perpetuates an idea of "transness so completely from the cis imagination". [78] Lisa Laman of Culturess, meanwhile, lamented how Emilia Pérez was yet another trans-centric film that focused excessively on surgeries and only featured one trans character in its entire cast. [79]

In El País , Paul B. Preciado described the film as "a polysemic amalgam loaded with racism and transphobia, anti-Latino exoticism and melodramatic binarism" which "reinforces the colonial and pathologizing narrative" of both gender transition and Mexican culture. [80]

Reception in Mexico

Emilia Pérez has been harshly criticized in Mexico and Latin America. The film was the opening night film at the Morelia Film Festival in October 2024, where it had a limited audience, and was released in Mexican theaters on January 23, 2025, grossing 9.4 million pesos in its first weekend. [81] Carlos Aguilar of RogerEbert.com described the overall casting as "another patch in this glamorous pastiche". [82] Prior to its national premiere, Audiard and actress Adriana Paz were to present the film at a special event at the Cineteca Nacional, with the presence of students from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Azcapotzalco, but both cancelled their participation for "logistical reasons". [83]

The absence of Mexican actors in the main roles has been a source of controversy. [84] [9] [85] In this sense, some people understood that the casting director, Carla Hool, suggested in some statements that there was a lack of talent in Mexico as a reason for the main actresses in the film not to be Mexican, but Hool commented as follows: "We did a big search, we were open, and we did a big search in Mexico, and in the US, Spain, in all Latin America [...], but at the end of the day, the best actors who embody these characters are the ones who are right here, right?", defending the performance of the selected actors. On the other hand, actress Adriana Paz, who plays a secondary character, is Mexican. [86] [87] Mexican screenwriter Hector Guillen said it was "really painful" that Hool, who is Mexican, has not found worthy talent in Mexico and Latin America. "The fact that there are a few Mexicans doesn't stop it from being a Eurocentric production," he said. [88]

The lyrics of the song "Papá" performed by Emilia Pérez's son, alluding to the son's olfactory memories ("You smell like my dad, like Diet Coke with ice, lemon and sweat. Mezcal and guacamole") were decried as "simplistic" and "ridiculous" on social media. [89] A parody short film, Johanne Sacreblu , set in France and featuring stereotypical French accents but starring Mexicans and filmed in Mexico, was released by Camila Aurora González, a trans Mexican content creator. The film went viral on social networks, to the extent that Vanity Fair France described it as "revenge" by Mexicans against the film, mentioning that the short film uses all kinds of clichés about the country, such as sailor shirts, mustaches, baguettes, the bad smell of French people and the presence of rats in the streets, as a counterweight to the Mexican stereotypes that she claims the original film presents. [90] [91] [92]

In March 2025, after her Academy Award win, Saldaña stated about the film: "I'm very, very sorry that [...] so many Mexicans felt offended. That was never our intention. We spoke from a place of love. [...] For me, the heart of this movie was not Mexico. We were making a film about friendship. We were making a film about four women. These women could have been Russian, could have been Dominican, could have been black from Detroit, could have been from Israel, could have been from Gaza. And these women are still very universal women that are struggling every day, but trying to survive systemic oppression and trying to find the most authentic voices. So I will stand by that, but I'm also always open to sit down with all of my Mexican brothers and sisters, with love and respect, [to have] a great conversation on how Emilia could have been done better." [93]

Addressing the issue of drug trafficking

Both critics and audiences resented the lack of "sensitivity and context" on the issue of drug trafficking, [94] [95] with some Mexican journalists and influencers calling it "narcomusical". [96] [97] [98] The film was also criticised as an "insensitive caricature" that is an apologism to drug traffickers. [99]

After being questioned about the reception of the film in Mexico, which has not yet been officially released in this country at the time, Mexican actress Adriana Paz, part of the cast of Emilia Pérez, defended her work and recalled that the film is a work of fiction, arguing that "it is an operetta in which people sing and do things that we would not do in reality. All opinions are acceptable, what I find ugly is the violence with which they are expressed". [100]

Controversy

Film crew comments

Jacques Audiard

Several statements by the film's director, Jacques Audiard, generated controversy. In an interview he implied that he had not studied the Mexican context in depth: "No, I didn't study that much. What I had to understand I already knew a little", although these statements, originally in French, were translated at the time by someone else. [101] [102]

In another interview, Jacques Audiard stated that "Spanish is a language of emerging countries, of modest countries, of poor people and migrants". Audiard later claimed that his comments were taken out of context and that he actually has a great appreciation for the Spanish language: "What has been said is the opposite of what I think". [103] Audiard also said that they wanted bigger-name stars instead of Mexicans in order to be able to finance the film. [104]

Karla Sofía Gascón

The vehement defence of the film on social networks by the lead actress was heavily criticized by internet users in Latin America. [105] Gascón's controversial tweets from recent years resurfaced in January 2025, in which she verbally attacked Muslims and George Floyd, expressed anti-Chinese and anti-Catalan sentiments, [106] and when she mocked the 93rd Academy Awards calling it an "Afro-Korean festival". [107] These posts caused backlash from the public, leading Gascón to delete her X (formerly Twitter) account. [108]

To address the controversy, Gascón arranged an hour-long TV interview with CNN en Español, which eventually intensified the backlash since viewers considered the segment as "hollow" and disliked the comments she made throughout it. [109] The backlash extended to Gascón's co-star Zoe Saldaña. [110] Following these statements, Netflix decided to no longer fund Gascón's travel or fashion for the remainder of awards season and removed her from Emilia Pérez's awards campaign, releasing a new poster excluding her and enlisting the film's numerous wins and big nomination tallies. [111]

Jacques Audiard stated that he was no longer in contact with Gascón after her apology. [112] Following Audiard's comments, Gascón posted a statement on Instagram, stating that she would step back in hope that her silence would "allow the film to be appreciated for what it is, a beautiful ode to love and difference". She reiterated her apology about the tweets she made. [113]

Gascón did not attend the 39th Goya Awards, and the controversy surrounding her statements was present throughout the event. On the red carpet, several Spanish film and industry personalities, such as director Juan Antonio Bayona and rapper C. Tangana, expressed their sadness at the situation, with Bayona calling it a "lynching" while highlighting the quality of Emilia Pérez. [114] [115] In February 2025, it was announced that Gascón would attend both the 50th Cesar Awards and the 97th Academy Awards. [116]

Accolades

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Karla Sofía Gascón and Zoe Saldaña earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for their performances, with Saldaña winning.

At the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, stars Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Zoe Saldaña collectively won the Best Actress award, while director Jacques Audiard won the Jury Prize and Clément Ducol and Camille won the Soundtrack Award. The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or and the Queer Palm. [117] It was also named one of the Top 10 Films of 2024 by the American Film Institute. [118]

At the 97th Academy Awards, Emilia Pérez received a leading 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Audiard, Best Actress for Gascón, who is the first openly trans woman to be nominated in the category, and Best Supporting Actress for Saldaña. [119] At the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, Emilia Pérez won four awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Foreign Language Film, from 10 nominations. [120] Emilia Pérez is also the most-nominated non-English-language film at both ceremonies.

Emilia Pérez received 11 nominations at the 78th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Gascón, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for both Gomez and Saldaña. [121] The film received three nominations at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Gascón, Gomez, Paz, and Saldaña, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for Gascón, and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Saldaña. [122]

Emilia Pérez received 13 nominations at the 50th César Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress for both Gascón and Saldaña. [123] The film also won five European Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress for Gascón. [124] At the 30th Critics' Choice Awards, the film received 10 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Gascón, Best Supporting Actress for Saldaña, and Best Acting Ensemble. [125]

Certain commentators were critical of its awards season dominance, considering the film "Oscar bait". [126] [127]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The film credits Audiard as writer, "in collaboration with" Bidegain, Mysius and Livecchi.

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