Emilia Pérez Premieres at More Festivals

[zodgory]

https://instagram.com/p/DA_1CxZzSB6
The women of Emilia Pérez (and director Jacques Audiard) continue to attend festivals and do press for their film. Earlier this week, they were in the Bay Area for the Mill Valley Film Festival, were in NYC, and now they're in London for the BFI London Film Festival

Comments

[donaestrangera]

I guess we’ll see how it plays out but I don’t think the cast is going to be the object of the backlash, probably mainly the white male French director lol. That said, said white male French director is also very much one of those prestige arthouse directors who has been making critically acclaimed films in Europe for a long time and this is his first attempt to make a Hollywood film, so he’ll have his defenders from fans of his previous films too. It’s the perfect recipe for a disaster lol. I see it going farther and farther with awards shows (I think the only awards show that won’t like the film is BAFTA lol) while the backlash gets stronger and stronger from the media and social media so Hollywood just doubles down!

Yeah, I can kind of relate to Selena because Indonesian was the only language I spoke until kindergarten but my mom was the kind of person who thought that if she continued to speak to me in it I wouldn’t pick up English as easily, so I quickly forgot my native language. But as an adult when I decided it was time to relearn there weren’t resources in the United States to help me learn again and I had to go all the way to Indonesia to take a class (which I did, multiple times, and it was so so worth it for both connecting to the language and the culture and I’m fluent again)… I would’ve died to have as many resources available to me to relearn my native language IN the United States as there are for Spanish! She could easily hire a tutor or take a class and she doesn’t even have to leave Los Angeles to find lots of people to practice with lol. That said, she could spin it as her being brave to take a role in another language and the Academy voters will probably eat it up lol. Hire me as your PR Selena I’ve got ideas ❤️❤️❤️