"They allowed me to go deeper into the character and make it feel real," Gascón says, referring to Julia Floch-Carbonel and ...

half her,” referring to the years she spent presenting as Manitas, a man. When Emilia learns Jessi has fallen in love with an ex, she attacks Jessi rather than revealing who she is, and the ...

"After learning of Jessi’s affair, Emilia switches back to Manitas’ masculine vocal register to chastise and threaten her, as if the man is still inside her," Douglas Markowitz adds.

The film, directed by Jacques Audiard, stars Karla Sofía Gascón as Emilia Pérez and Juan "Manitas" Del Monte, Zoe Saldaña as ...

In the floridly off-kilter “Emilia Pérez ... a powerful drug lord, Manitas (a wonderful Karla Sofía Gascón), for an unusual job. Manitas, who presents as a man but identifies as a woman ...

She'll be paid enough that she need never work again if she helps Manitas make a clean break not just from a life of crime but from life as a man. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "EMILIA PEREZ") SALDANA ...