Ladies and gentlemen, critics agree Emilia Perez is unlike anything you've ever seen.
It's exhilarating and dazzling.
Wiggle of the Best Actress and Jewelry Prize awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Times gives it five stars and calls it a gorgeous musical epic.
Cut to the chase, the telegraph proclaims.
Few flexes come bigger wrinkles.
Emilia Perez.
Directed by Jacques Oudiard.
Starring Zoe Saldana, Carla Sofia Gascon and Selena Gomez.
In select cinemas now and watch on Netflix.
This is episode four of Not Built for Unbuilding the Terrace.
Lake Charles, Louisiana is a low lying city in the southwest corner of a low lying state.
It's right off I10, about halfway between Baton Rouge and Houston.
And when I first pulled into town, the city was bigger than I was expecting.
It was nighttime and from a distance the skyline was lit up like some giant metropolis.
It's like a gleaming city.
If you looked quickly, you might think you were looking at Manhattan.
But when you get a little closer, you realize those aren't skyscrapers lighting up the night.
It's just nothing but fossil fuel infrastructure.
It's just a series of refineries with lights all up and down on the spires of these smokestacks.