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Emilia Pérez States Its Case Right Away
The film’s impressive opening number drops you into a world of corruption and chaos.
But the following musical number, a grand procession through the streets of Mexico City, also functions as a plea to the viewer — to buy in, to accept the film’s idiosyncratic world, one where Rita quickly gets entangled with a drug lord (Karla Sofía Gascón) seeking gender-affirming surgery. The team scrambled to build one from the ground up, including dozens of market stands, which required specific design elements, like the 30 sets of string lights brought back from Mexico to achieve the right warm glow. A couple of weeks before the shoot, Jalet began recording rehearsals in full with an iPad on a DGI stabilizer, establishing exactly when the remote-controlled market stands would shift in another direction or the camera would pivot to a different angle in order to make it seem like a different street and give the illusion of one continuous shot.
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