Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez (2024)
And the moral of the story is.... will someone please think of the poor children (who appear to sing and plead for help as tiny heads all set against a black backdrop because otherwise how would we get the message to the dummies watching on their phones)! And that criminal drug cartel dealer who really had just a sweet and compassionate soul just waiting to come out once all the estrogen got into her system.... This sucks. I think this single handedly gave me athlete's foot. Somehow Jacques Audiard makes a case for himself as much less adept and understanding of what makes a Musical Movie crossed with an "important" message to work than Todd Phillips... I'll expand on this thesis momentarily... and here we go: Emilia Perez has a (to quote Joe Pesci to Michael Imperioli in Goodfellas) a lot of problems. What stands out though as at best a miscalculation and at worst something insulting to any audience with two brain cells to rub together is how Jacques Audiard tells ...
