I need a deep breath to explain this one.
Ok, here goes….French director Jacques Audiard has directed a Spanish language Almodóvar-esque musical about the violent drug cartel in urban Mexico.
Violent killer drug Barron Manitas has to disappear, so stages his own death and pays a bright lawyer Rita ( Zoe Saldana ) to spirit his trashy wife Jessi (Selina Gomez) and his children to Switzerland. In the meantime Manitas is transformed into Emilia at a Swiss clinic and after years transforming re enters Mexican society as Manitas sister ( The extraordinary Karla Sofia Gascon)
Are you still with me?
Now Rita reenters the story by bringing the clueless Jessi and her boys to live with their aunt back in Mexico and the story complicates even more by Jessie’s new relationship ,Rita and Emilia’s new found work locating the remains of thousands of drug crime victims in Mexico and the tender new relationship between Emilia and poor housewife Epifania ( Adriana Paz)
Bloody Hell
gascon as Emilia
Audiard ( a non Spanish speaker ) adds to the melodrama by some wonderfully bonkers musical set pieces and trans actress Gascon totally steals the show as the throaty, suddenly big hearted and transformed Emilia, Statuesque, Broad shouldered, sexy and at times an incredibly vulnerable former killer she dominates every scene
It’s bonkers , but I loved it
It actually sounds interesting. Certainly a whole new plot line.
ReplyDeleteI think I followed the plot. I can't concentrate as well as I used to, and that needs deep concentration! xx
ReplyDeleteAnd is all this improbable personality change due to the effects of replacing testosterone with estrogen? Oh please. If it were only that simple (and simplistic).
ReplyDeleteDebra , a good point. I saw it on Monday and your point changed my mind about it
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Er... can I just read all that again? .....
ReplyDeleteEmilia is just my type of woman
ReplyDeleteLee
But would you be her type of man?
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DeleteA female dog? How does that come into it?
DeleteIt sounds like a good story with many twists and turns.
ReplyDeleteIt's complicated. I think I would have to watch it to follow the plot better, but you described it well.
ReplyDeleteIt is the season for plot twists.
ReplyDeleteI think everyone has a "it's bonkers, but I loved it" film or show or record up their sleeve. One of mine is the film "The Usual Suspects." Which you have to watch, be bamboozled by the ending - and then have to wind back and immediately watch again, to catch all the clues missed. Devilish!
ReplyDeleteI think that would be hard to follow if viewers were relying on sub-titles. Am glad you loved it.
ReplyDeleteHugs!