"A French auteur telling a Mexican story in Spanish, diving into crime, melodrama and sexual identity is a welcome rarity indeed. “Emilia Pérez” runs 2 hours and 12 minutes, yet we wouldn’t mind if it sang and danced for a bit longer." - Alci Rengifo, Entertainment Voice

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. 

"Like movie fireworks, fierce and glorious, a radical act of the imagination with kindness in its heart." - Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine

"It’s a feminist musical crime thriller about a transgender cartel boss. Doubly surprising is that, for all its strangeness -- or perhaps because of it -- the mashup often works." - Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor