What 'Emilia Pérez' gets wrong about Mexico: 'It's a cartoon'
What 'Emilia Pérez' gets wrong about Mexico: 'It's a cartoon'
- March 1, 2025
- Héctor Tobar, Chicano/Latino studies and English, USA Today, March 1, 2025
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At its best, "Emilia Pérez" tackles love and identity with Saldaña and Gascón pouring it all into their roles − but even if Audiard never intended the film to be about Mexican drug cartels, it's what he calls back to constantly. … "The cartels are these symbolic metaphorical ideas in the American imagination," says Héctor Tobar, author of "Our Migrant Souls" and professor at the University of California, Irvine. "That subject material is always going to be extremely problematic and like every other film about cartels, it can't help but glorify them."
For the full story, please visit https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2025/03/01/emilia-perez-depiction-of-mexico-backlash/79776711007/.
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