Emilia Pérez
First feted then hated, Emilia Pérez got a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. By the time the Oscars came around the tide had started running the other way, with its 13 nominations resulting in only two wins – Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña, plus Best Song (El Mal). What had happened in the interim is a textbook case of a social media pile-on, some of it justifiable some of it not, which resulted in all sorts of apologies being given to the faceless blob for crimes against trans people, misrepresentation, the lack of actual Mexicans in the key roles in a film largely set … Read more