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Mexico City, Mexico – 23 January 2025
1. Cinema’s ticket office, sign displaying movies on show
2. Close of sign with movies on show, including ‘Emilia Perez’
3. Pull-focus from ‘Emilia Perez’ banner on screen to woman buying tickets
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dora Pancardo, wellness coach:
"I don’t like some things about how the country is portrayed and how Mexico’s culture is portrayed. I also didn’t like Selena Gomez speaking such bad Spanish."
5. People buying tickets
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Rivera, civil servant:
"I liked it. To begin with, I liked it a lot. The performances and the setting."
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Mexico City, Mexico – 16 January 2025
7. Mexico City skyline
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Mexico City, Mexico – 24 January 2025
8. Láurel Miranda, transgender human rights advocate, speaking during interview
9. Close of Progress Pride flag
10. Close of Miranda’s hands
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Láurel Miranda, transgender human rights advocate:
++STARTS ON SHOT 9++
"This (film) fits very well into the narrative by far-right groups which believe that trans people simply change our gender identity to obtain benefits, to leave our past behind, or even to get away from crimes."
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12. View of city
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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – 21 January 2025
13. Artemisa Belmonte, whose mother and three uncles disappeared in 2011, during interview
14. Photo of Belmonte’s missing mother, Artemisa Ibarra
15. Close of Belmonte turning album pages
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Artemisa Belmonte, activist who started a petition against ‘Emilia Perez’:
++PARTLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 14-17++
"If you want to create empathy, you don’t do it with a musical. It’s as if we in Mexico, or Hollywood, did a musical about 9/11 or a musical about the Holocaust. It’s unthinkable. There are topics you can’t sing and dance about."
17. Tattoo on Belmonte’s arm of a phrase written by her missing mother, next to the letter that inspired the tattoo
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18. Various of ‘Emilia Perez’ actor Adriana Paz, left, director Jacques Audiard, centre, and main star Karla Sofía Gascón, right, posing for photos
19. Gascón posing for photos
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez’ director:
++ STARTS ON SHOT 19 ++
"If you see the film, you won’t learn anything from me, and you may find that I’m only flying over the issue (of Mexico’s disappeared). If that’s the case, I apologize."
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Mexico City, Mexico – 23 January 2025
21. Various of ‘Emilia Perez’ banner
STORYLINE:
‘Emilia Perez’ may be an Oscars favourite, but a day after its debut in Mexico, the acclaimed narco-musical was already drawing sharp rebukes for portrayals of sensitive subjects that some found superficial.
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 as 13 Oscar nominations – a record for a non-English-language film.
Yet the ambitious ‘Emilia Perez’ and its star-studded cast met with a fizzle in box office – 20,000 attendees at its premiere and about $74,000 dollars (1.5 million pesos) – and mounting criticisms that it was a not-so-faithful portrayal of Mexico that glamorizes the violence that has long plagued the nation.
Problems later arise from Manitas’ uncontrollable jealousy toward her ex-wife Jessi (Selena Gomez), despite falling deeply in love with another woman Epifanía (Adriana Paz).
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