2025-02-06
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Lockdown has a lot to answer for.
As many were baking sourdough at home, Jacques Audiard, a French filmmaker,
was writing an opera libretto about a Mexican cartel boss who fakes his own death,
undergoes gender transition surgery and campaigns for the missing victims of the drug war.
The resulting film, a trans-narco musical fever dream called Emilia Perez,
has earned 13 Oscar nominations.
Since the Academy Awards began in 1929, only three films have received more.
No other foreign language film ever has.
Hollywood is besotted, but audiences are not.
Moviegoers' reviews have been savage.
On the Internet Movie Database, IMDb,
it's the lowest rated best picture nominee since 1935, earning a 6 out of 10.
On Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates critic and audience opinions,
the public approval rating is just 23%.
The nine other best picture nominees score between 75% and 99%.
The film's Rotten Tomatoes rating is down from 75% in December before it opened in Mexico,