Emilia Pérez
Rohan Naahar
The Indian Express
Jacques Audiard’s audacious new film is like a cross between Chachi 420 and Dog Day Afternoon
acques Audiard's new film, dances to its own tune; it's a musical, a crime thriller, and a redemption tale. It's among the most ambitious films of the year.
Did the French auteur Jacques Audiard watch Chachi 420 and feel inspired to make his latest film, Emilia Pérez? Stranger things have happened this year. Nick Jonas has celebrated Holi in Greater Noida, and Ed Sheeran has fried a batata vada with Sanjyot Keer. Is the idea of Audiard, a Palme d’Or-winning maestro, watching a Kamal Haasan rip-off really that outlandish? The genre-fluid mess that it is, Emilia Pérez certainly has origins in mainstream Indian cinema — it can go from Ekta Kapoor-style drama to Farah Khan-inspired musical in a matter of minutes. And like so many of our country’s films, its gender politics aren’t entirely above reproach.