Emilia Perez

AroView: Set in Mexico but made in France, this exciting Trans-Gangster-Musical has polarized audiences but is best appreciated as a modern operatic fable.

Visionary director Jacques Audiard serves up a series of phenomenal set pieces around the dazzling, committed performances from Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Selena Gomez at the centre of its wild redemption story.

It only took home two of its thirteen Oscar nominations, presumably because Hollywood didn’t want to take the heat on a film that has been targeted from some quarters for being culturally insensitive and more. But Audiard and his collaborators have a right to be unapologetic about a film this passionate, and compassionate. See it, and judge for yourself.

“The cumulative effect of all this talent is a life-affirming blood-and-guts carnival of a movie that ranks highly among Audiard’s best, and boldest, work.” ~Stephen Dalton, The Film Verdict

“Audiard’s trick is to make the overblown mélange into something amazingly confident – it’s clever, earnest, ridiculous, knowing, forceful and absolutely bonkers. It’s hard to believe he pulls it off, but he does.” ~Tim Robey, The Telegraph