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The Making of an All-Time Oscars Villain
How Emilia Pérez — then its star, Karla Sofía Gascón — became this awards season’s most hated nominee.
New York critic Bilge Ebiri called Emilia Pérez “fearless in its ridiculousness” but noted the movie was “filled with giant culture-war booby traps,” predicting viewers would be “yelling at each other about it long after the fest is over.” Journalists at Cannes largely sat on the fence regarding Audiard’s handling of trans issues, and as the film left the cosseted festival atmosphere last fall, queer critics began raising alarm bells. Once the film hit Netflix home screens in November, it only took hours for a clip of its most memorable sequence, a Busby Berkeley musical number set in a Thai gender-affirmation clinic, to go viral.
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