'Emilia Peréz' may be Oscars favourite, but 'narco-musical' sparks mixed feelings in Mexico

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(25 Jan 2025)
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Mexico City, Mexico - 23 January 2025
1. Cinema’s ticket office, sign displaying movies on show
2. Close of sign with movies on show, including ‘Emilia Perez’
3. Pull-focus from ‘Emilia Perez’ banner on screen to woman buying tickets
4. People buying tickets
5. Dora Pancardo, 45, at cinema, UPSOUND (Spanish): "I don't like some things about how the country is portrayed and how Mexico's culture is portrayed."
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dora Pancardo, wellness coach:
"I also didn't like Selena Gomez speaking such bad Spanish."
7. Various of ‘Emilia Perez’ banner
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Rivera, civil servant:
"I liked it. To begin with, I liked it a lot. The performances, the setting and the music give a different effect to a normal story."
9. Poster (Spanish) "Cannes Festival - Best actress"
10. Close of ‘Emilia Perez’ poster

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ARCHIVE: Mexico City, Mexico - 15 January 2025
11. Various of ‘Emilia Perez’ actor Adriana Paz, left, director Jacques Audiard, centre, and main star Karla Sofía Gascón, right posing for photos
12. Gascón posing for photos
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez’ director:
"If you see the film, you won't learn anything from me, and you may find that I'm only flying over the issue (of Mexico’s forcibly disappeared)."
14. Audiard during news conference, UPSOUND (French): "If that’s the case, I apologize"

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Mexico City, Mexico - 16 January 2025
15. Mexico City skyline
16. Mexican film critic Gaby Meza during interview
17. Close of Meza holding mug
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gaby Meza, film critic:
"Getting down to the substance of the film, I think it features themes that feel simply exoticized, and that it preys on vulnerable issues with little empathy just to achieve a shocking product."

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Mexico City, Mexico - 24 January 2025
19. Close of Progress Pride flag
20. Close of hands of Láurel Miranda, transgender human rights advocate
21. Miranda speaking during interview
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Láurel Miranda, transgender human rights advocate:
"This fits very well into the narrative by far-right groups which believe that trans people are not good people and secondly, that we simply change our gender identity to obtain benefits, to leave our past behind, or even to get away from crimes."

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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - 19 January 2025
23. View of city

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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - 21 January 2025
24. Artemisa Belmonte, whose mother and three uncles disappeared in 2011, during interview
25. Photo of Belmonte’s missing mother, Artemisa Ibarra
26. Close of Belmonte turning album pages
27. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Artemisa Belmonte, activist who started a petition against ‘Emilia Perez’:
"If you want to create empathy, you don't do it with a musical. It's as if we in Mexico, or Hollywood, did a musical about the Twin Towers or a musical about the Holocaust. It's unthinkable. There are topics you can't sing and dance about."
28. Tattoo on Belmonte’s arm of a phrase written by her missing mother, next to the letter that inspired the tattoo
29. Teddy bear made from a dress that belonged to Belmonte’s missing mother, UPSOUND (Spanish): "My mom really liked to wear dresses like this. So, in order not to get rid of it, I turned it into a teddy bear and added a phrase she said to me."
30. Close of teddy bear and phrase on it (Spanish): "Mom's love sleeps in this room! I love you, my child. Artemisa."
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