EMILIA PÉREZ
Jacques Audiard
130 MIN | Comedy, Crime, Musical | 2024
Wednesday, Nov 6 | 7:00 PM
AF Isis Theatre | 406 E Hopkins Ave, Aspen
TICKETS $16 GA | FREE AF Member
From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes EMILIA PÉREZ, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations.
Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) enlists Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job, to help fake her death so that Emilia can finally live authentically as her true self.
In an interview with IndieWire, Director Jacques Audiard noted, "I’m fascinated by the paradox of this idea of the hyper-violent and hyper-masculine world and the idea of wanting to transition... EMILIA PÉREZ is not a movie I could have made ten years ago because it’s a movie that tackles contemporary issues. And Emilia Pérez transitions, and along with her, the movie transitions. It switches forms. It goes from a narco movie to a tele-novella to a musical. There’s that revolution as well.”