2025 Oscars Best Picture Series - EMILIA PÉREZ

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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It's Oscars season! The Cine-Files hosts John Rocha and Steve Morris continue their exploration of the 2024 Best Picture nominees in their Oscars Best Picture Series with this conversation and review of EMILIA PÉREZ. This controversial film from director Jacques Audiard that has been nominated for 13 Oscars follows three remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. Cartel leader Emilia enlists unappreciated lawyer Rita to help fake her death so that she can finally live authentically as her true self.. It stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Edgar Ramirez and Karla Sofía Gascón. John and Steve discuss the acting, directing, writing, cinematography and musical numbers in the film along with its Oscars chances in the 13 categories it was nominated in. Don't forget to vote in our First Annual Oscars show by signing up for our Patreon as a free or paying member. Everyone gets to vote and we will announce the winners on our live The Cine-Files Oscars show on March 1st!

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0:37.4	Hello everyone and welcome to the next installment in our Oscars series here on The Cine Files.
0:44.1	I am John Rokentone, as always, by my partner, Steve Morris.
0:47.8	Hello, how tall?
0:49.4	Very good.
0:50.8	And today, we are going to be exploring the Best Picture nominee,
0:55.6	Emilia Perez, from French director Jacques Odiard, starring Zoe Zaldania,
1:00.9	who's been nominated for her performance, Carlos Sophia Gascon,
1:03.7	who's been nominated for her performance as well,
1:05.9	Celina Gomez, Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramirez, Eduardo Aladro, and a sort of other phenomenal actors here in this movie.
1:15.7	Of course, there's a lot of controversy around this movie, and we will get into our feelings on that and more in this discussion.
1:23.6	But we want to remind you all that we are doing this, for those who may be catching up on this for the first time,
1:29.4	as we, in an effort to lead towards our first annual Cinephile Award show, Steve, that is happening on March 1st.
1:36.8	That's right. We are actually, we decided we don't want to leave it up just to the Academy to say,
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