I've just added a mafia musical and dark comedy to my Netflix watch list after watching the trailers for Emilia Pérez and No Good Deed
Two big comedies are heading to Netflix
· TechRadarNews By Grace Morris published 1 October 2024
A musical crime saga and a black comedy series that feels like a realtors nightmare is going straight onto my Netflix watch list after the best streaming service released two new trailers for Emilia Pérez and No Good Deed. Both titles look like the next big comedies I’ve been waiting for but with very different plots.
Emilia Pérez is a genre-bending musical odyssey as it follows cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) who enlists lawyer Rita (Zoe Saldaña) to help fake her death so she can live authentically as herself.
Meanwhile, No Good Deed sees three families competing to buy the same house in Los Angeles, but what might be their dream home soon turns into something of a nightmare. Consider me sold!
What is Emilia Pérez about?
Emilia Pérez | Official Teaser | Netflix - YouTube
Release date: November 13
Directed by Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez looks like it is filled with bold song and dance visuals. It follows four women in Mexico pursuing their own happiness. Formidable cartel boss Emilia asks Rita, an unappreciated lawyer, to take on an unexpected case: to help fake Emilia's death so she can have sex-reassignment operations and begin a new life under a new name - Emilia Pérez.
The potential best Netflix movie is described as an "audacious fever dream" by Tudum, Emilia Pérez also serves as an opera. Saldaña revealed: “It was described to me as this film noir that didn’t really exist in any of the conventional kind of genres, but it was a musical. It was actually an opera, and based in a crime world, but there was going to be a sense of justice, and validation, and sanctification. And I was just like, ‘What?’ I had to read it more than once. And then, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.”
The operatic tale also stars Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Édgar Ramírez.
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