After winning two Oscar awards, The controversial movie ‘Emilia Pérez’ He will continue his wobbly path with his next streaming premiere throughout Latin America. The musical, starring Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña, will be available in The entire region through the Paramount+ platformthe company announced in a statement.
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The news was surprising, since Netflix originally served as a distributor of the film that was cheered during its premiere at the Cannes Festival. The streaming giant promoted the film to reach the contest of different awards, including the Oscars, for which he accumulated 13 nominations, but only took two, One for Best Original Song and another for Saldaña as Best Supporting Actress.
His next premiere on the streaming platform seeks to put “relevant content for entertainment fans”, according to the statement that indicates that it will be in May when the tape will be available.
The controversies of ‘Emilia Pérez’
The arrival of ‘Emilia Pérez’ to the platform Paramount+ is scheduled for May 15. Its digital premiere occurs after the different controversies that the French ribbon Jacques Audiard unleashed, which was indicated to present a very comfortable vision of social problems that afflict Mexico such as the narco and the disappearance of people.
The story follows the leader of a poster who decides to leave behind his criminal past transforming into another person (Karla Sofía Gascón). The plot takes place in Mexico, but the film was made in French forums and the filmmaker confessed that he “did not study” the context before developing his work, which made him the object of criticism.
Although it eventually offered apologies, ‘Emilia Pérez’ was pointed out by minimizing the violence of the narco and the problem of missing persons, who add up to alarming figures in the Latin American country. The film had already left a widespread discontent among Mexican audiences, this was added the controversy of actress Karla Sofía Gascón, who was the target of criticism after former tweets with messages cataloged as racists.
The arrival of the film to the Paramount+ streaming platform is given months after Saldaña’s statements upon receiving its Oscar, when he assured that the film was not Mexico. “For me, the heart of the film is not Mexico,” The actress expressed. “We did not make a film about a country, we made a film about four women. And these women could be Russian, Dominican, they could be African American of Detroit, they could be from Israel or Gaza,” he added.
