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‘Anora,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Emilia Pérez’ Showcase the Work of Writer-Directors

In ‘Anora,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Emilia Pérez,’ writer-directors showcase their personal investment in telling stories.

Spotlighting the post-WWII immigration experience for Holocaust survivors who came to America in search of a new beginning, Brady Corbet’s “ The Brutalist ” superficially feels like Oscar boilerplate, telling its epic story in intimate terms. Another hard-charging, in-your-face odyssey focused on a sex worker a la his 2021 film “Red Rocket,” Sean Baker’s “ Anora ” follows a young stripper (Mikey Madison) who impulsively marries the rich and flamboyant son (Mark Eydelshteyn) of a Russian oligarch. “Emilia Pérez,” which French filmmaker Jacques Audiard adapts from his own opera (itself loosely based on Boris Razon’s 2018 novel “Écoute”), turns the conventional expectations of a movie musical upside-down.

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