That Emilia Perez is an unusual film is an understatement. A genre-defying Mexican drama-musical about the gender confirmation surgery desires of a cartel criminal with intense gender dysphoria, you might think it shouldn't work and yet it does.
Zoe Saldana plays Rita the lawyer charged with the obligatory task of helping the underground figure attain her goals. In fact she isn't given a choice under the penalty of her own death. Emilia, the surgical candidate, is played by Spanish transgender actress Karla Sofia Gascon who has a wife played by Selena Gomez confused about what is going on and is kept in the dark. There are also two young children involved.
Emilia fakes her own death to complete the process and has her wife think she died. I shall reveal nothing else but it gets increasingly complex from there.
On Netflix in Spanish with English subtitles and highly recommended.
No comments:
Post a Comment
All respectful comments are welcome :)