Jacques Audiard's 'Emilia Pérez' is a critically panned musical set in modern Mexico, featuring a drug kingpin's tumultuous journey towards gender transition and personal redemption. The film's protagonist, Manitas Del Monte, embarks on a series of dramatic events involving gender-affirming surgeries and a deceitful plan to reunite with her children. Despite being lauded with Golden Globe wins and 13 Oscar nominations, its 132 minutes of over-the-top storytelling are criticized for being chaotic and poorly conceived. Ultimately, the film serves as an example of misguided ambition in cinema rather than a successful narrative experience.
It's also the precise sort of preening cinematic onanism that Hollywood types like to think of as visionary, which is the reason the film's Golden Globes triumph was just followed by a leading 13 Oscar nominations from academy voters.
Instead, what unfolds is a glittering and garish tour de force of disaster, a relentless procession of terrible ideas, terribly executed.
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