MEXICO CITY — The movie “Emilia Pérez ... In its opening last weekend, Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language, French-made melodrama finished eighth in Mexican box-office receipts, well ...

“Jacques didn’t give us any pitch ... production designer on Anatomy of a Fall and 120 BPM, Audiard began to re-create Mexico City — and London, Tel Aviv and Switzerland — on a backlot ...

The star of Jacques Audiard’s showy new musical about ... Set largely in present-day Mexico City, the fast-track story follows a beleaguered lawyer, Rita (a very good Saldaña), who’s hired ...

What Audiard's wild Mexican musical lacks in psychological ... a former cartel crime lord called Manitas in Mexico City, has enlisted Rita’s help to find a doctor to perform her gender ...

Zoe Saldaña had dreamed of working with Jacques Audiard when she learned ... He lit upon Saldaña to play Rita, an underappreciated Mexico City lawyer who is enlisted by a cartel leader (Karla ...

From “Kokomo City” and “Crossing” to “I Saw ... films about transgender subjects can or should be. Director Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying musical, “Emilia Pérez” — a stylized ...

The movie by French director Jacques Audiard debuted in Mexico on Thursday on the heels of wins at Cannes and the Golden Globes, as well at 13 Oscar nominations – a record for a non-English ...

The director Jacques Audiard narrates the star’s passionate ... Saldaña’s character, Rita, a lawyer in Mexico City, attends a gala with politicians while the title character Emilia (Karla ...

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” hits ... Set against the neon-lit backdrop of Mexico City, “Emilia Pérez” is as vibrant as its setting. The story revolves around Rita (Zoe Saldaña ...

The movie is France’s entry for this season’s Oscars; takes place in Mexico, London ... if only because writer-director Jacques Audiard asks us to swallow this flaming baked Alaska whole ...