“Emilia Pérez” Is Receiving A Lot Of Mixed Reactions From Critics, Filmmakers, And General Audiences – BuzzFeed
“So you are telling me that the voting body for the Golden Globes thought Emilia Perez was a better musical than Wicked?” —@sunshine0nmeBuzzFeed StaffFilm critic and historian Leonard Maltin said in his review that “Phrases like ‘game-changer’ and ‘cutting-edge’ can’t capture just how audacious and original Emilia Pérez is.”Director James Cameron said on the Ringer Movies podcast, “What I saw that blew me away was Emilia Pérez. I have seen it three times… It’s just not like any other film that’s ever been made. It’s bold, daring, a vision. It’s beautifully executed. It’s a beautiful piece of filmmaking.”Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro said, “It’s so beautiful to see a movie that is cinema,” during a Q&A with the film’s director following a Los Angeles screening.GLAAD called the film a “profoundly retrograde portrayal of a trans woman.”On an episode of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, critic Reanna Cruz said, “The entire time I was watching it, I had a really weird feeling in my stomach because, to me, it seemed like the filmmaker was painting trans women as liars,” Cruz said. “Liars and people that can’t tell the truth and they don’t know who they are.”This is a message to @TheAcademy. pic.twitter.com/lbRHNsJ9a5emilia perez winning after the french director said he didn’t care about doing research on mexican culture…. okay pic.twitter.com/uVe5mKcgq3it’s always cultural appropriation until the latinos speak. you have a french production company, a french director and writers & everyone’s clapping while they accept awards in FRENCH because they don’t know spanish… mind you mexico is the last county emilia pérez came out inwe’re actually witnessing history this awards season tbh. we may never see a film as dogshit as emilia perez win awards. this is generational delusion from voting committees that we may never see again.I’ve never seen filmtwt be so united as it is when it comes to hating on Emilia PérezNot to be friend that’s too woke but the Emilia Perez cast and crew not using any of their platform tonight to talk about securing and protecting the right to gender affirmation care given the nature of the film and the climate we’re in is mad dark nasty evil spirit behaviorI have heard nothing but bad things about Emilia Pérez and they winning everything….im confused pic.twitter.com/Xs6ddx5aAB“and the golden globe goes to emilia perez” pic.twitter.com/vnDuTqWAURemilia perez: *wins an award*brazilians, mexicans, film twitter & people who just wanna be included: pic.twitter.com/A6SUJyxACfSo you are telling me that the voting body for the Golden Globes thought Emilia Perez was a better musical than Wicked?#GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/cwVQgrE4TJ
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