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From “Kokomo City” and “Crossing” to “I Saw the TV Glow” and “Mutt,” the last few years have brought a series of cinematic works that challenge what films about transgender subjects can or should be. Director Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying musical, “Emilia Pérez” — a stylized imagining of how a life of crime could be at least temporarily transformed by becoming one’s true self — may be the most ambitious yet.
” The exuberant, full-throttle musical inspired by French writer Boris Razon’s novel “Écoute” starts in Mexico City, where a talented young criminal defense lawyer named Rita is struggling to find success without abandoning her moral code.
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