Richard Brody reviews the film “Emilia Pérez,” directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Karla Sofía Gascón.
The attorney, Rita Mora Castro , is brilliant and frustrated. As the associate to a prominent defense lawyer , she has to write courtroom speeches that he simply memorizes and work on cases that conflict with her sense of justice.
Emilia keeps a foot in her previous life, with the power of wealth and the menace of violence near at hand. Nonetheless, in penitence for her ruthless ways as Manitas, she founds an organization, La Lucecita , to search for victims of cartel-related violence. She boldly makes herself its public face, while entrusting the practicalities to Rita.
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