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Emilia Pérez

In Mexico, a lawyer receives an unexpected offer to help a feared cartel boss retire from his business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he's always dreamed of being. (R, 132 min.)

Open caption screening on 11/13 @ 4:00 pm.

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Friday, November 8, 2024

4:00 PM 6:45 PM

Saturday, November 9, 2024

2:15 PM 5:00 PM 7:45 PM

Sunday, November 10, 2024

2:45 PM

Monday, November 11, 2024

5:00 PM 7:45 PM

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

4:30 PM 7:15 PM

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

4:00 PM

Thursday, November 14, 2024

4:30 PM 7:15 PM

Four remarkable women pursue happiness in Jacques Audiard's audacious, genre-defying film that unfolds through a fever dream of original songs and dance.
[Netflix] Exhilarating and piercingly resonant, the latest from director Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, TIFF ’12; The Sisters Brothers, TIFF ’18) audaciously merges pop opera, narco thriller, and gender affirmation drama. Emilia Pérez is a rollercoaster in which crime, redemption, and karma collide, featuring fearless performances from Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and the amazing Karla Sofía Gascón, an ensemble that collectively received the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

Rita Moro Castro (Saldaña) is a Mexico City defense attorney whose brilliant strategies have kept many murderous but wildly affluent clients out of jail. Her reputation draws the attention of Manitas Del Monte (Gascón), a notorious kingpin, who is secretly transitioning. He hires Rita to arrange an itinerary of under-the-table procedures with the world’s best surgeons, while making a plan for the wife (Gomez) and kids he’s leaving behind. The process is a success, Manitas’ murder is staged, and Emilia Pérez is born. This new identity affords Emilia the ability to create a whole new life for herself, but the past begins to creep back, threatening to undo everything she and Rita have worked so hard to achieve.
Written by Audiard with Thomas Bidegain, Nicolas Livecchi, and Léa Mysius, with music by Camille and Clément Ducol, Emilia Pérez upends expectations with its ingenious plot twists, eye-popping spectacle, and inspired musical detours, which find the entire cast singing, rapping, and dancing as a means to express the dreams and anxieties of an entire culture struggling against corruption, fear, and harmful stereotypes. [TIFF]

Starring: Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez
Director: Jacques Audiard
Languages: English, Spanish
Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Musical, Thriller

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"A musical for our time indeed."

— Kevin Maher, Times (UK)

"If Sergio Leone were alive and making musicals, he might have engineered something this grand and sweeping."

— Kyle Smith, Kyle Smith Wall Street Journal

"With Emilia Pérez, [Audiard] has made something fresh, full of vitality and affecting, held aloft by its own quietly soaring power."

— David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

"Emilia Pérez is an ode to embracing one's identity, a parable of forgiveness, and a love story that is both romantic and platonic."

— Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly

"It's a gloriously original tribute to anyone who truly dares to go their own way, but particularly the amazing women who do it under extreme fire."

— Nick Howells, London Evening Standard

"I was disarmed from the start by Audiard’s quasi-Almodóvarian vibes, his touchingly imperfect embrace of song-and-dance stylization, and, most of all, his three leads."

— Justin Chang, Justin Chang New Yorker

"Emilia Pérez emerges as a powerful, unfiltered portrait of someone who challenges several stereotypes at once. That’s a testament to leading lady Karla Sofía Gascón and the audacity of Audiard."

— Peter Debruge, Variety

"The musical talent helps bring the catchy score of singer Camille and composer Clement Ducol and the energetic choreography of Damien Jalet to life. It’s the musical spectacle that truly makes this movie a roller coaster ride."

— Namrata Joshi, The New Indian Express

"Emilia Perez wins you over by being unabashedly sincere. It takes its mission in all of its various genres—musical, crime thriller, and soap opera—seriously thanks to the committed performances and Audiard’s expressive direction."

— Esther Zuckerman, The Daily Beast

"You've never seen anything like like Jacques Audiard’s Spanish musical about violent passions starring Zoë Saldaña, Selena Gomez and trans actress Karla Sofia Gascón in career-defining performances that take a piece out of you. This you don't want to miss."

— Peter Travers, ABC News