TOPpena below Eva against Eva, La La Land And Titanicthe three most candidates ever. The count of Emilia Pérez Of Jacques Audiard to the Oscars 2025 It is impressive: Thirteen heavy nominations And more than a record, including that of films that are not in English more nominated in history. A nice feast, No doubt about it. Also highly foreseen considering the long sequence of successes collected by Emilia. But also one who has restored petrol to the unsolvable controversies on the film already started in Cannes (jury prize and four actresses).
While in these parts we forgot in the blink of Vermilion by Maura Delpero, outside the best international films, Mexicans have returned to ask the French director. Guilty of several identities, to the Spanish language, to the tragedy of the Mexican desaparecidos and the whole cinema. On social media – the cineforum that we deserve – it seems the ugliest film ever made, a musical with atrocious songs and dances, The most malicious film, dishonest and colonialist ever conceived. Unreachable from every point of view.
Also in that of Karla Sofía Gascón, the first transgender actress declared to be a candidate for an Oscar. Yes, a positive fact, said the LGBTQ+ American organization Gladbut it is a retrogada representation. Manitasruthless bosses of the drug sign that becomes Emilia and finally The director of a foundation that recovers the bodies of hundreds of missing (also because of his cause), it is the same idea of gender dysphoria present in Silence of the innocent. That is to say of a suffering related to the propensity for the assassination. Enough, he says again GLAD.
But Gascón is not even the most controversial aspect of Emilia Pérez. The true core of recurrence is Mexico, a country-subject of the film reconstructed in a theater near Paris. Although the film was released only on January 26 in Mexicolocal critics and professionals began to attack him from the victory in Cannes. Now that the prizes season is at its peak, the wave of controversy has reached the peak.
Because Audiard did not turn in Mexico, involving professionals and local actors? In the main cast there is only a Mexican actress: Adriana Paz. Gascón is Spanish from Madrid, Zoe Saldana is American with Dominican and Puerto -fast origins, Selena Gomez is third generation Mexican. And then as you can be so indelicated as to exploit the national tragedy of the desaparecidos for a musical: Could you ever set up a story of songs and dancing on the twin towers?
Karla Sofía Gascón is Emilia Pérez in “Emilia Pérez”. (Pathé Films)
Emilia Pérez, The controversies on the film: colonialist, euro centric, disrespectful of the dead
Before the 13 nominations, to Vittoria of the Golden Globe (best comedy or musical film), was Héctor Guillénscreenwriter, to ruin the party to the film. His post indignant on X tagged to the Academy has reached three million people. Héctor writes that “Mexico hates Emilia Pérez “, Which is a centered euro mockery. And that – given in hand – out of 500 thousand and beyond people killed France has decided to make us a musical.
Guillén’s criticisms are the summary of a general feeling, the novelty is that they have been published in the form of-room sentences, of those that accompany the launches of the films. Type “masterpiece”, “winner of 4 Oscars”, “to see”. Interviewed by the BBC, Héctor he described Audiard as a great director, but that nobody – during the thanks for the globe – He recalled hundreds of deaths from the drug cartel, he says, he is unforgivable. (Who knows that we should say others of the victims of the mafia used for entertainment purposes, or of the mafia as an export product.)
About Mexico reconstructed in the studio, Audiard said it was an aesthetic decision and control. Working in the location would have led to a dispersion of energy as well as a loss in visual efficacy (“By chance Shakespeare went to Verona to write about it?”, His defense). While on the reason of the extra Mexican cast, The production said he had not found any valid elements. Which could be translated with “we needed stars”.
Selena Gomez speaks the bad Spanish
Another controversial aspect of Emilia Pérez It is that of the language and the wrong accents, and therefore of the nonsense of the whole casting. Salandana and Gascón had no problems with the Spaniardbeyond local inflections that have more or less apt (always say critics). But Gomez, over the years the language of dad, He did “the possible in the short time I had, I’m sorry”so the justification to the actor Eugenio Derbez, who, guest at Podcast Hablando de Cinehe had criticized the stunted Spaniard (Gomez is named for a Bafta but was excluded by the Oscars).
Selena Gomez in “Emilia Pérez”. (Pathé Films)
To remedy this problem, Jessi, her character, was transformed into that of a American with a knowledge of the limited Spanish. But against the poor Selena, according to always Derbez, there would also be the mechanics of an acting in which “the body, the voice, the intentionality are disconnected from what it says”. And the fault would be precisely a director who does not speak Spanish, and therefore does not know inflexions and rhythm. «Emilia is a movie Designed for Export (still Derbez), like when you go to a Mexican resort and buy souvenirs who are actually made elsewhere ».
Really unrelated from every point of view? For Guillermo del Toro and Issa Lopez (director and screenwriter of True Detective 4), and for many other directors, patrons, cinephiles and random spectators in the world, the film is a masterpiece. Fresh, disruptive, absurd, stimulating, also moving, the unique vision of an artist.
Agree in the Applause there are also many Mexicans, not at all offended in national pride. Yes, the themes are sensitive, but the work, on a fantastic level, It is not programmatically unresolvedeven if a certain widespread discomfort is understandable. That is, that of a community – the Mexican one – neglected, identified to the north as “the immigrant”torn inside. Even attached to geography: The Gulf of Mexico that Trump would like to rename.
He could have asked, listen to the activists, so as to understand the most correct way of dealing with the subjectIn conclusion, Guillén of Audiard says. That for its part he apologized reaffirming the anti -realistic nature of the project, and that cinema does not provide answers, only questionsbut perhaps those of Emilia Pérez they are incorrect. Will be, but it had been corrected as a state product would have been Wickedthe musical very tear and Queer and collection champion and snubbed in favor of Emilia. That the Academy – blind to the online criticisms that has never imported anything to him – has he started risking a little?
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