Selena Gomez did awfully in this role. I understand she’s supposed to be an American who didn’t learn Spanish as their first language but it’s clear she’s never been around Spanish speakers or taken the time to consume Spanish media. She sounds as if aliens came down and were using ChatGPT to create scripts and interact with us in English. I’m not sure how else to describe this phenomenon. I grew up in Texas and Southern California with Mexican Americans who didn’t fluently speak Spanish but even when they try they don’t sound like this because they’ve truly grown up around the language. It baffles me how many awards this film has been given, and proves we need more Latinos in film making because what the fuck???
Eva Longoria would have been great in this role and wouldn’t have needed to “study up” like Selena did. Mexican Americans deserve more representation because Selena Gomez is not cutting it
@@kayy1089 They probably picked Selena so they could bring in the young audience. Just like with her show Only Murders In The Building. I don't know whether her speaking Spanish was bad or not because I'm not an expert but since people are saying it, people who are fluent, then I guess it's true.
Completely agree with everything you said. As a Mexican person though, this film leaves even more to be desired. All three lead actresses struggled with their accent (none of them were Mexican) and in particular Selena Gomez. I just never was able to immerse myself in the story. It's like watching a period piece set in London where the lead actor has an American southern twang. Just feels like the filmmakers wanted to use Mexico without giving anything back to it, and it's certainly not a film that had Mexicans in mind for the audience. The fact that the film was all pretty much shot in Paris says it all.
@@djrn1621yes but it’s still toneless american spanish, she was either too mad or seemed fake angry. it just doesn’t make sense to cast someone who clearly can’t speak the language anymore, and i say this as someone who had to relearn their spanish and tones from high school to college.
The director was French and he said he did not need to learn anything about the country or the language, when people hire say a Mexican director to direct a movie like this it’s not woke or whatever bs they vomit, it’s getting someone with actual perspective from that culture and that gives you a better chance to make a good movie, same reason the Moon Knight director was Egyptian and the country/ culture was actually portrayed and not butchered with appropriation and cliche Hollywood stereotypes.
A lot of this is simply using our culture and our problems as an aesthetic, to sell themselves as Latinos even though they are not, and I am tired of seeing people from the US put on a label to feel like they belong to something even if they have never experienced it.
I find it hilarious it still hasn't released in Mexico xd you need a VPN to watch a Mexican movie in Mexico. Once more latinos watch this I'm sure the backlash is gonna spread more.
@HiLoMusic yeah but it kinda ruins the award shows because it's like you know they're trying to make it seem like they're being inclusive but they're lowering the bar for the more "inclusive" movies so it kinda makes it seem like a joke it's like at the Victoria Secret fashion show last year when it was "inclusive" by having fat and trans Models on the runway but the show itself was less glamorous than previous fashion shows not to mention it looked like it was shot at a warehouse like when it's skinny Models they spend millions of dollars going all out for these elaborate outfits and when it's fat or trans Models like they get bare minimum SMH
Exactly my thoughts! Too much information for a single script. The songs' lyrics sound absolutely cheesy in Spanish (for a native Spanish speaker). Some parts of the movie feel very cringey, and Selena's accent is pretty strong whenever she speaks/sings in Spanish. Karla Sofia, on the other hand, has a wonderful voice. It'd have been amazing if the director let her sing more songs and upgraded the lyrics and music.
A mess is exactly what it was. It didn't do justice to any of the topics it tried to deal with... The editing was jarring and downright baffling at times, the messages pandering and poorly executed, and a mexican it felt foreign and sensationalist.. baffling it's getting such high regard..
As a native speaker this movie sounds like nails on a chalkboard, you can really tell none of the actresses are mexican and it’s funny the way the movie bends itself to justify this, Selena is american, although she comes from a mexican family and has been living in mexico for years; Zoe is dominican but she doesn’t sound dominican either; Karla doesn’t master the accent but at least you can tell she knows what she is saying. The other two is like they’re just doing random sounds with their mouths. But also for non spanish speakers, do you guys not hear the songs sound awful as well? Like just musically speaking they are so grating on the ears
Selena’s Spanish was horrendous, I think native speakers probably won’t like the movie too much just cuz it takes you out of it when she starts speaking Spanish
Her character was also not a native speaker so it makes sense for her to have a broken english, it was a character choice. If they wanted for the character to speak perfect Spanish they've would've gone with a native speaker, not her.
@@cmrr8284 its not just her Spanish. The Spanish writing, especially Selena’s sound like a failed chat gpt dialogue. Or like they google translated straight from French. She utters phrases that no one in the history of Spanish have ever uttered and it sounds crazy.
@@cmrr8284it wasn't a character choice. They rewrote her character to be an American so as to justify the bad Spanish. It's nails on a chalkboard to hear for Spanish speakers, what sense does it make for the film spoken mostly in Spanish to turn off the people who can understand the language because of how poorly done it is?
saw the title and was like oh oh, immediately came to the comments just to see him get flamed lmao, its gonna be a rough season for broski. I'm excited to watch the movie I've heard so many great things about it.
For those who are ignorant enough about this. Would you be cheering if the subject were the World Trade Center attacks? Or the Bataclan in Paris? Or the train attack in Madrid? This movie is an insult to all the mothers that tirelessly search for their son’s remains in shallow graves. But how could that person know. He is a man. He doesn’t know a mother’s heart. This movie is and insulting mockery of a suffering country. All because of the never ending substance abuse in the States. Shame in you, for glorifying violence and dancing on many Mexican people graves.
So glad I’m not alone on this movie. Saw this at Cannes and I don’t understand how people clapped 9 minutes for it. Yeah I know Jacques Audiard is great I like Dheepan love “Un prophète”but this one is just not for me. It’s frustrating to watch a film you know you should like but ends up with not liking it at all
This movie is painful to watch. It’s an insult! I’m not Mexican, nor trans. I just have a brain and Emilia Perez is a great example of colonizers doing what they do best.
I completely agree!! Thanks for expressing what I felt and not many people are saying 😇 I think that the film is ambitious, but the story doesn't hold up. I found it absurd and, at times, goofy. I felt like the whole conflict could have been solved with an easy character decision, and the musical numbers were original, but not very memorable. Only the last song really made me feel something. There is a section in the middle, where there is basically no conflict and I was almost bored. Despite the good intention behind it, I think that it tries to do too many things at the same time. And how do you make such a film without a Mexican actress in one of the main roles! In my opinion, there are much better candidates for the Best International Feature category.
When I watched it I felt like it's a polarizing film - you either love it to death or hate it to bits. I'm part of the former... the film was astounding to me and I've never quite seen anything like it before.
Well we can't like all movies. But I've been seeing how this movie is being treated by Cannes, TIFF, and other important bodies, and something tells me this is gonna be a long Oscar season for you. Good luck FilmDrunk, it ain't fun watching a movie you don't like win Oscars.
I’m more with you on this film. I think it tried to pack in too many strands and I didn’t love the end. I thought the performances were great, liked the story, but I agree the script is on the weak side and although I liked the songs, I didn’t like the spoken songs, where it was basically dialogue spoken to music. I enjoyed it, but didn’t think it was incredible.
I think now that it’s actually been released to general audiences you have been vindicated for this. Such a “film fests love it, general audiences can’t stand it” kind of movie
Let alone the actual Latin American films that should be up for an Oscar (Sujo, I'm Still Here) we have on the other side of the spectrum Anora, which was cast with multiple ACTUAL Russian & Slavic actors, consulted extensively with sex workers and the Russian community in NYC, and explores themes of power, fantasy, class, and more in such an authentic way. It is an actual joke that Emilia Pérez won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film over I'm Still Here. If Emilia Pérez even wins ONE Oscar over the other incredible films I am going to lose it.
I feel so lukewarm about this movie. The camera work is stunning. Some songs are good, most are forgettable. Zoe Saldaña is good, but she needed a dialect coach. Thick Caribbean accent. They try to brush it off saying she was born in Dominican Republic, but it comes across as lazy. Selena Gomez is God awful. Her accent is embarrassing. It's all over the place. I never felt like Emilia deserved a fresh start, I was never able to sympathize with her. She was a monster, becoming a women didn't fix that.
This movie definitely had problems and I was confused by the infrequency(or I guess lack of distribution) of the musical elements, but I really enjoyed Gascon’s performance.
Regarding language, accents, script, the approach to the real context in Mexico, the movie is a freaking disaster. If you speak Spanish natively you will probable dislike Selena Gomez's scenes, the writer and her really needed a dialect coach to say the least
I hear it only superficially develops the characters and does not allow you to really understand the why behind what they are doing, especially the part played by Zoe Saldana. It’s also in Spanish, so I have to wait until I am back in the uS and can have English subtitles. Seeing a Spanish movie, while having to focus on translating French in my head is a disincentive to go out to see the film. A lot of actors have someone else’s voice dubbed in for the singing. Not saying that happened here, but it happens a lot. “The Greatest Showman” is a perfect example of that.
I would have liked the film if it wasn't a musical because it was tonally inconsistent that I thought I was watching a musical comedy sketch from SNL or MTV Movie Awards when it went offbeat out of nowhere.
That's fair but western people or non Latinos should realise how much of an insult this was to Mexican culture, and then the comments of the director about Mexico and Latinos have been apalling.
this was a garbage movie. this is not made with or for mexicans. the director is french and casted hardly any mexican actors and gave us a misrepresentation of real trans women. this doesn’t help them at all.
Something very odd about this movie is how there are many and bigger underlying problems with pretty much every thing, but for some reason, many people are only trashing on Selena Gomez more than anything. Her acting in Spanish is absolutely terrible, but wouldn't being miscast a casting director problem first?
I'm not Hispanic but I personally had no interest in watching this as i just found the whole premise and plotline extremely insulting and disrespectful to the Hispanic community not to mention it has a song called "from penis to vagina"? Like WTH? I almost thought this was a joke
im so surprised that you didnt like the movie bc a lot of people love it on twitter on the last days that is on netflix... but omggg the reasons why you didnt like it are not even the biggest problem with that movie. I mean, you dont hav to know bc u are from another culture but... the movie absolutely shits on the accuracy of the accents and Mexican culture. I dont usually get upset about movies but this thing feels like a really bad joke that surprisingly have made laugh damn too much people, mostly non mexicans... i mean, it made me laugh but about the fact that everything is out of place and just not the way it happens in Mexico. But cmon, i cant say i disaree with the points you say on the video
Some musical numbers are odd, even for Hispanic speakers. Some lyrics border the awkward area but there is a really nice one which it is “El MAL” and Saldaña does a great job on it.
Tbh I was mixed on it too mate. A film I admired but didn’t personally love. I’m actually kinda glad it’s not just me who hasn’t swooned for this film. 😅
To be honest, I think this movie was OK. I mean there wasn’t a really lot going on. There are some originalities I like to it but overall it’s an OK movie.
The depiction of Mexico isnt bad. As a Mexican i am not mad at it. The acting itself is good. The story is at least interesting, what gets me is having Zoe be Dominican and no very clearly indicate that she is and is now living in Mexico and working there as a lawyer and it isnt dawning on anyone that is what is happening. There are black people in mexico she could have played a true mexican, by getting the accent right , but i feel like this movie did not make the efford to cast any mexicans as the main characters or give the actors the time to sound and feel mexican. Selena is supposed to be a mexican american women that still cannot speak spanish fluently even after living in mexico for years, just give the girl more time to get it right. The lady playing Epifania is the only mexican actress in the cast and she does an amazing job. I think from the mexican audience she is the only that makes sense in this story. Everything else feels fake. Like a soap opera by way France. The other issue i have with it is that the main character is one of the most violent man turn trans women. The trans part is not the issue, the issue is that i am supposed to believe that a men that has inflicted so much violence and death and was probably one creating many of the death and missing of my country has a sudden chance of heart and now wants to help people find their missing death. The story just didnt give me enough to belive the change. Just didnt.
i haven’t seen it yet but i’m a trans person and the idea of telling a story that for the most of what i’ve heard centers around the main character’s masculinity and such just leaves a weird taste in my mouth. when i see it ill talk more but that just doesn’t seem like a forward thinking premise
Can't agree more! The other problem with this movie is that it lacks conflict and only tries to come up with one around 2h mark, not delivering it and failing as a result.
Finally, I thought I was going insane after seeing this in Cannes it getting so much praise. I really agree how much this film is a huge mess and I thought the songs were just plain bad. Agree about the choices after 'escaping your past' as well. Just feels odd to frame it that way.
Did we see the same movie? It was off the charts in its characterization, style, and thematic approach. The movie is alive from the opening credits and just goes off in the stratosphere. The film borrows slightly from Almodovar but remains original. It is a masterpiece and will be capturing many awards during the season. Bravura !
This movie is like if a french dude decided to make a movie over school sh**tings in the U.S with 0 respect, making things so cliché like filming the movie in a fake old west set with cowboys as extras and the cherry on the top: all actors speak english with a wet back accent. This is an insult to mexican culture. And its not about a foreigner making a movie with foreign actors about mexico. We love Nacho Libre, the film makers studied well our culture and society, and so they created a master piece. This due on the other hand couldn’t even point on a map where California, and he decides to make a movie about such a delicate matter in mexico. Shame on this master shit.
@ As an actress, an artist and a film aficionado who’s been to every film festival under the moon… Emilia Perez is the best movie we’ve had in cinema in years. Your tastes are just not that deep
Selena Gomez did awfully in this role. I understand she’s supposed to be an American who didn’t learn Spanish as their first language but it’s clear she’s never been around Spanish speakers or taken the time to consume Spanish media. She sounds as if aliens came down and were using ChatGPT to create scripts and interact with us in English. I’m not sure how else to describe this phenomenon. I grew up in Texas and Southern California with Mexican Americans who didn’t fluently speak Spanish but even when they try they don’t sound like this because they’ve truly grown up around the language. It baffles me how many awards this film has been given, and proves we need more Latinos in film making because what the fuck???
Eva Longoria would have been great in this role and wouldn’t have needed to “study up” like Selena did. Mexican Americans deserve more representation because Selena Gomez is not cutting it
@@kayy1089 Or Eiza González. There were plenty of better options.
@@kayy1089 They probably picked Selena so they could bring in the young audience. Just like with her show Only Murders In The Building. I don't know whether her speaking Spanish was bad or not because I'm not an expert but since people are saying it, people who are fluent, then I guess it's true.
Completely agree with everything you said. As a Mexican person though, this film leaves even more to be desired. All three lead actresses struggled with their accent (none of them were Mexican) and in particular Selena Gomez. I just never was able to immerse myself in the story. It's like watching a period piece set in London where the lead actor has an American southern twang. Just feels like the filmmakers wanted to use Mexico without giving anything back to it, and it's certainly not a film that had Mexicans in mind for the audience. The fact that the film was all pretty much shot in Paris says it all.
idk selena's accent didnt bother me at all- it made sense to her character! she's supposed to be gringa american! from LA in the film
@@djrn1621yes but it’s still toneless american spanish, she
was either too mad or seemed fake angry. it just doesn’t make sense to cast someone who clearly can’t speak the language anymore, and i say this as someone who had to relearn their spanish and tones from high school to college.
@@djrn1621 It's a very bad performance, I'll just admit it.
The director was French and he said he did not need to learn anything about the country or the language, when people hire say a Mexican director to direct a movie like this it’s not woke or whatever bs they vomit, it’s getting someone with actual perspective from that culture and that gives you a better chance to make a good movie, same reason the Moon Knight director was Egyptian and the country/ culture was actually portrayed and not butchered with appropriation and cliche Hollywood stereotypes.
@@djrn1621it literally didn’t they had to change the character from the original script because her Spanish was so bad 😂
A lot of this is simply using our culture and our problems as an aesthetic, to sell themselves as Latinos even though they are not, and I am tired of seeing people from the US put on a label to feel like they belong to something even if they have never experienced it.
Even worse it was actually made by French people 💀
@@saber-san6270 So vile
as a latina trans woman myself this was such a slap to the face idk how my mom was head over heels for this
This movie is an insult to all of us in México who have suffered from Narc*
Can't believe this won over Wicked
For real!
Ikr. I don’t even like musicals but Wicked was amazing.
It just won the Golden Globe what is going on 😭😭😭
I find it hilarious it still hasn't released in Mexico xd you need a VPN to watch a Mexican movie in Mexico. Once more latinos watch this I'm sure the backlash is gonna spread more.
😂😂😂😂
You were ahead of the curve. This movie is overhyped garbage and many ppl are discovering that.
I can't figure out for the life of me why this movie is getting so many awards everybody is saying it's trash
@@Model_Roe virtue signaling mostly. They like having 'token' films like this in the mix
@HiLoMusic yeah but it kinda ruins the award shows because it's like you know they're trying to make it seem like they're being inclusive but they're lowering the bar for the more "inclusive" movies so it kinda makes it seem like a joke it's like at the Victoria Secret fashion show last year when it was "inclusive" by having fat and trans Models on the runway but the show itself was less glamorous than previous fashion shows not to mention it looked like it was shot at a warehouse like when it's skinny Models they spend millions of dollars going all out for these elaborate outfits and when it's fat or trans Models like they get bare minimum SMH
Exactly my thoughts! Too much information for a single script. The songs' lyrics sound absolutely cheesy in Spanish (for a native Spanish speaker). Some parts of the movie feel very cringey, and Selena's accent is pretty strong whenever she speaks/sings in Spanish. Karla Sofia, on the other hand, has a wonderful voice. It'd have been amazing if the director let her sing more songs and upgraded the lyrics and music.
Dude why would you apologise for having an opinion? It's all good.
A mess is exactly what it was. It didn't do justice to any of the topics it tried to deal with... The editing was jarring and downright baffling at times, the messages pandering and poorly executed, and a mexican it felt foreign and sensationalist.. baffling it's getting such high regard..
This feels like a movie made for award shows.
Agreed, this movie is awful. Terrible music, flat performances and a story and message constantly undercutting itself at every turn.
As a native speaker this movie sounds like nails on a chalkboard, you can really tell none of the actresses are mexican and it’s funny the way the movie bends itself to justify this, Selena is american, although she comes from a mexican family and has been living in mexico for years; Zoe is dominican but she doesn’t sound dominican either; Karla doesn’t master the accent but at least you can tell she knows what she is saying. The other two is like they’re just doing random sounds with their mouths.
But also for non spanish speakers, do you guys not hear the songs sound awful as well? Like just musically speaking they are so grating on the ears
I speak Spanish and I can confirm that the songs even in Spanish were shit haha I couldn’t see any effort to make them sound good.
Selena’s Spanish was horrendous, I think native speakers probably won’t like the movie too much just cuz it takes you out of it when she starts speaking Spanish
Her character was also not a native speaker so it makes sense for her to have a broken english, it was a character choice. If they wanted for the character to speak perfect Spanish they've would've gone with a native speaker, not her.
I guess not all choices are good ones
@@cmrr8284 its not just her Spanish. The Spanish writing, especially Selena’s sound like a failed chat gpt dialogue. Or like they google translated straight from French. She utters phrases that no one in the history of Spanish have ever uttered and it sounds crazy.
@@cmrr8284it wasn't a character choice. They rewrote her character to be an American so as to justify the bad Spanish. It's nails on a chalkboard to hear for Spanish speakers, what sense does it make for the film spoken mostly in Spanish to turn off the people who can understand the language because of how poorly done it is?
Believe me, I'm a Spanish native speaker and we hate this movie even more than the English community.
This movie sucked ass. A truly bad film. Zoe was OK but not award worthy imo. 2/10.
I speak spanish and I can't figure out most of the lyrics 😂😂
I wish you luck in these comments brother
saw the title and was like oh oh, immediately came to the comments just to see him get flamed lmao, its gonna be a rough season for broski. I'm excited to watch the movie I've heard so many great things about it.
@@Jose-sx4ql 3.3 on letterboxd and dropping
Drunk was ahead of the curve. This movie is overhyped garbage and many ppl are discovering that.
@@Jose-sx4ql So many great things. Yeah 3.1 on Letterboxd and dropping
For those who are ignorant enough about this.
Would you be cheering if the subject were the World Trade Center attacks? Or the Bataclan in Paris?
Or the train attack in Madrid?
This movie is an insult to all the mothers that tirelessly search for their son’s remains in shallow graves. But how could that person know. He is a man. He doesn’t know a mother’s heart.
This movie is and insulting mockery of a suffering country. All because of the never ending substance abuse in the States.
Shame in you, for glorifying violence and dancing on many Mexican people graves.
So glad I’m not alone on this movie. Saw this at Cannes and I don’t understand how people clapped 9 minutes for it. Yeah I know Jacques Audiard is great I like Dheepan love “Un prophète”but this one is just not for me. It’s frustrating to watch a film you know you should like but ends up with not liking it at all
0:24 bro pulled out the baby photo😭😭
This movie is painful to watch. It’s an insult! I’m not Mexican, nor trans. I just have a brain and Emilia Perez is a great example of colonizers doing what they do best.
If a Babylon fan calls something a mess then it must reeeally be a mess haha
If a Babylon fan calls something a mess then they're a hypocrite and shouldn't be trusted
I'm not a fan of Emilia Perez but it is nowhere near as bad as Babylon.
Hold up, he likes Babylon?
I’ll give the movie credit, the song La Vaginoplastia is more memorable than all the songs from Moana 2 & Mufusa soundtracks combined
I completely agree!! Thanks for expressing what I felt and not many people are saying 😇 I think that the film is ambitious, but the story doesn't hold up. I found it absurd and, at times, goofy. I felt like the whole conflict could have been solved with an easy character decision, and the musical numbers were original, but not very memorable. Only the last song really made me feel something. There is a section in the middle, where there is basically no conflict and I was almost bored. Despite the good intention behind it, I think that it tries to do too many things at the same time. And how do you make such a film without a Mexican actress in one of the main roles! In my opinion, there are much better candidates for the Best International Feature category.
When I watched it I felt like it's a polarizing film - you either love it to death or hate it to bits. I'm part of the former... the film was astounding to me and I've never quite seen anything like it before.
I always appreciate your honesty with your reviews. You admire your audience, and respect us, but you don't pander to us. Thanks, keep it up!
Well we can't like all movies. But I've been seeing how this movie is being treated by Cannes, TIFF, and other important bodies, and something tells me this is gonna be a long Oscar season for you. Good luck FilmDrunk, it ain't fun watching a movie you don't like win Oscars.
ok fanboy.
You can go now
LMAOO nobody more than selena fans and gringos are loving that, mexicans, latin americans, europeans, etc. Hates it
I’m a trans latino man. And holy SHIT this movie was so fucking awful.
Haha... No you are not
Escaping past is not a problem, because it's not tied to Emiloa being a trans man, but former criminal
You on the right side of history months ago...
Every awards season has that one film everyone dogpiles, rightfully.
Give all the awards to The Substance btw.
I’m more with you on this film. I think it tried to pack in too many strands and I didn’t love the end. I thought the performances were great, liked the story, but I agree the script is on the weak side and although I liked the songs, I didn’t like the spoken songs, where it was basically dialogue spoken to music. I enjoyed it, but didn’t think it was incredible.
I think now that it’s actually been released to general audiences you have been vindicated for this. Such a “film fests love it, general audiences can’t stand it” kind of movie
It’s crazy how right this was
Ok, sweetie
Let alone the actual Latin American films that should be up for an Oscar (Sujo, I'm Still Here) we have on the other side of the spectrum Anora, which was cast with multiple ACTUAL Russian & Slavic actors, consulted extensively with sex workers and the Russian community in NYC, and explores themes of power, fantasy, class, and more in such an authentic way. It is an actual joke that Emilia Pérez won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film over I'm Still Here. If Emilia Pérez even wins ONE Oscar over the other incredible films I am going to lose it.
I just saw it today and complete agree with everything you say. I really don’t get the hype on it
Too each his own. Haven't seen it yet. But some people would say Babylon is a mess....and I'm some people.
as someone who really doesnt like baz's films, i liked this one
I feel so lukewarm about this movie. The camera work is stunning. Some songs are good, most are forgettable. Zoe Saldaña is good, but she needed a dialect coach. Thick Caribbean accent. They try to brush it off saying she was born in Dominican Republic, but it comes across as lazy. Selena Gomez is God awful. Her accent is embarrassing. It's all over the place. I never felt like Emilia deserved a fresh start, I was never able to sympathize with her. She was a monster, becoming a women didn't fix that.
This movie definitely had problems and I was confused by the infrequency(or I guess lack of distribution) of the musical elements, but I really enjoyed Gascon’s performance.
I was thrown off by Mexico being the last country they chose to release this 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that alone said everything you needed to know
@ RIGHT
Can't wait for the next Live!
13 nominations is crazy
Regarding language, accents, script, the approach to the real context in Mexico, the movie is a freaking disaster. If you speak Spanish natively you will probable dislike Selena Gomez's scenes, the writer and her really needed a dialect coach to say the least
I’m a singer and I thought Zoe Saldana sounded terrible.
I hear it only superficially develops the characters and does not allow you to really understand the why behind what they are doing, especially the part played by Zoe Saldana. It’s also in Spanish, so I have to wait until I am back in the uS and can have English subtitles. Seeing a Spanish movie, while having to focus on translating French in my head is a disincentive to go out to see the film. A lot of actors have someone else’s voice dubbed in for the singing. Not saying that happened here, but it happens a lot. “The Greatest Showman” is a perfect example of that.
I absolutely loved it
The acting is the reason to see this. The film is a platform for the three women. It’s like a cinematic concert.
I would have liked the film if it wasn't a musical because it was tonally inconsistent that I thought I was watching a musical comedy sketch from SNL or MTV Movie Awards when it went offbeat out of nowhere.
I saw it at Telluride. The script meanders and the third act is awful. I also don’t think it handles its trans depiction and themes well at all.
The comparission to Baz Luhrman fits. But that's a compliment.
Actually I thought it was the most boring movie I've seen all year.
Respect
I personally loved emilia perez. it was refreshing and the musical numbers were really inventive!
It was not a perfect film..but the premise, story telling and pacing were yes creative and refreshing too for me ..
it’s extremely trans phobic
That's fair but western people or non Latinos should realise how much of an insult this was to Mexican culture, and then the comments of the director about Mexico and Latinos have been apalling.
@@PaulaMartinez-sn1fw yea also it’s really alienated from trans people and a lot of queer people pointed out how hurtful this film was
this was a garbage movie. this is not made with or for mexicans. the director is french and casted hardly any mexican actors and gave us a misrepresentation of real trans women. this doesn’t help them at all.
Something very odd about this movie is how there are many and bigger underlying problems with pretty much every thing, but for some reason, many people are only trashing on Selena Gomez more than anything. Her acting in Spanish is absolutely terrible, but wouldn't being miscast a casting director problem first?
Are you gonna watch it again?
i personally liked the film
i was pleasantly surprised with selena's performance, i hope the movie does well during awards season
Are you deaf?
I'm not Hispanic but I personally had no interest in watching this as i just found the whole premise and plotline extremely insulting and disrespectful to the Hispanic community not to mention it has a song called "from penis to vagina"? Like WTH? I almost thought this was a joke
I'm glad you're being honest and not a sheep. Great review dear!
Critics are not sheep just because they all like a movie.
im so surprised that you didnt like the movie bc a lot of people love it on twitter on the last days that is on netflix... but omggg the reasons why you didnt like it are not even the biggest problem with that movie. I mean, you dont hav to know bc u are from another culture but... the movie absolutely shits on the accuracy of the accents and Mexican culture. I dont usually get upset about movies but this thing feels like a really bad joke that surprisingly have made laugh damn too much people, mostly non mexicans... i mean, it made me laugh but about the fact that everything is out of place and just not the way it happens in Mexico. But cmon, i cant say i disaree with the points you say on the video
Some musical numbers are odd, even for Hispanic speakers. Some lyrics border the awkward area but there is a really nice one which it is “El MAL” and Saldaña does a great job on it.
Tbh I was mixed on it too mate. A film I admired but didn’t personally love. I’m actually kinda glad it’s not just me who hasn’t swooned for this film. 😅
Hey fam!
This is a typical Oscar bait film, it's just in a foreign language. That's it. This film is going to tumble hard when we get to the Oscars.
OMG UR BABY PHOTO 😭
I hate musicals and dance numbers so this movie is not up my alley. Baz Luhrmann-esque is a double whammy of hate
It was really good. Two thumbs up for me.
To be honest, I think this movie was OK. I mean there wasn’t a really lot going on. There are some originalities I like to it but overall it’s an OK movie.
I saw it at Cannes and I liked it but didn't love it
lol it sounds, more or less, like it was nuanced lol
Fantastic movie! 4th best of the year.
Movie was incredible. Best movie I've seen in years.
Spot-on take
I agree with everything you say, but I still enjoyed the movie and recommend it to everyone.
The depiction of Mexico isnt bad. As a Mexican i am not mad at it. The acting itself is good. The story is at least interesting, what gets me is having Zoe be Dominican and no very clearly indicate that she is and is now living in Mexico and working there as a lawyer and it isnt dawning on anyone that is what is happening. There are black people in mexico she could have played a true mexican, by getting the accent right , but i feel like this movie did not make the efford to cast any mexicans as the main characters or give the actors the time to sound and feel mexican. Selena is supposed to be a mexican american women that still cannot speak spanish fluently even after living in mexico for years, just give the girl more time to get it right. The lady playing Epifania is the only mexican actress in the cast and she does an amazing job. I think from the mexican audience she is the only that makes sense in this story. Everything else feels fake. Like a soap opera by way France.
The other issue i have with it is that the main character is one of the most violent man turn trans women. The trans part is not the issue, the issue is that i am supposed to believe that a men that has inflicted so much violence and death and was probably one creating many of the death and missing of my country has a sudden chance of heart and now wants to help people find their missing death. The story just didnt give me enough to belive the change. Just didnt.
Heard Emilia Perez is actually TheFilmDrunk biopic and Karla Sofia based her performance on you👀👀👀👀👀🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥶🥶🥶🥶
THIS IS JUST A BAD 2 HOUR TELENOVELA AND ALSO A BAD MUSICAL LOL
The worst songs and music from any musical I’ve ever seen
aww! you were such an adorable baby! but this movie looks terrible! yikes!
This movie >>>>
i haven’t seen it yet but i’m a trans person and the idea of telling a story that for the most of what i’ve heard centers around the main character’s masculinity and such just leaves a weird taste in my mouth. when i see it ill talk more but that just doesn’t seem like a forward thinking premise
Zoe Saldana and Karla deserve Oscar nominations. Not Selena though I don’t get the hype surrounding her performance or musical numbers.
Selena is just a bigger name and her role was nothing but an extended cameo
Can't agree more! The other problem with this movie is that it lacks conflict and only tries to come up with one around 2h mark, not delivering it and failing as a result.
One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen
Bravery is the sign of manhood. You have nothing to be ashamed of
Manhood lol
Terrible film
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Well, let's hope it wins a lot of awards to make you mad.
Stick to your guns brother!
Finally, I thought I was going insane after seeing this in Cannes it getting so much praise. I really agree how much this film is a huge mess and I thought the songs were just plain bad. Agree about the choices after 'escaping your past' as well. Just feels odd to frame it that way.
Did we see the same movie? It was off the charts in its characterization, style, and thematic approach. The movie is alive from the opening credits and just goes off in the stratosphere. The film borrows slightly from Almodovar but remains original. It is a masterpiece and will be capturing many awards during the season. Bravura !
Besides Selena Gomez’s accent i loved it!
He's getting the swift cancellation with this one.
This movie is like if a french dude decided to make a movie over school sh**tings in the U.S with 0 respect, making things so cliché like filming the movie in a fake old west set with cowboys as extras and the cherry on the top: all actors speak english with a wet back accent.
This is an insult to mexican culture. And its not about a foreigner making a movie with foreign actors about mexico. We love Nacho Libre, the film makers studied well our culture and society, and so they created a master piece. This due on the other hand couldn’t even point on a map where California, and he decides to make a movie about such a delicate matter in mexico. Shame on this master shit.
This film is anything but a mess.
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Bad review. Emilia Perez is a masterpiece
Bad comment. Emilia Pérez sucks.
@ As an actress, an artist and a film aficionado who’s been to every film festival under the moon… Emilia Perez is the best movie we’ve had in cinema in years. Your tastes are just not that deep
@@DanieB322 You sound incredibly self-important and egotistical
@@DanieB322 Your "career" is just not that deep if this garbage qualifies as "masterpiece"
reddit is woke anyway