In a story about transformation, the engineers of change can be many. Take "Emilia Pérez," the award-winning musical film ...

The movie's about the leader of a Mexican drug cartel, Juan Manitas del Monte. Manitas was assigned male at birth and lived as a male until having gender-affirming surgery, taking the name Emilia ...

The film, directed by Jacques Audiard, stars Karla Sofía Gascón as Emilia Pérez and Juan “Manitas” Del Monte, Zoe Saldaña as Rita Mora Castro and Selena Gomez as Jessi Del Monte, ...

In Emilia Pérez, French director Jacques Audiard boldly presents the tale of cartel boss Manitas del Monte who decides to retire from business and undergo gender reassignment surgery to become ...

The two-hour film, starring Zoe Saldaña (Rita), Selena Gomez (Jessi) and breakout star Karla Sofía Gascón (Manitas del Monte/Emilia), is musically diverse, with rock, pop and rap leading ...

BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Manitas Del Monte is a vicious cartel boss in Mexico City, macho, ruthless with steel-capped teeth, humane only with the wife and kids. But Manitas desperately wants out.

In Jacques Audiard's melodrama Emilia Perez, a prosecutor gets an unusual request from the head of a Mexican cartel. He wants help transitioning out of his life of crime and his life as a man.

Director/writer Jacques Audiard tells a fascinating story through unconventional means. Inspired by Boris Razon‘s novel Écoute, the musical centers on drug lord Manitas Del Monte (Gascón), a ...

Karla Sofía Gascón as Juan “Manitas” del Monte in “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) For Montel, it was important to use clothes to create an identity for Manitas and then tie the two characters ...