Emilia Pérez features not just one but three divas, each of whom gets more than one extended aria in which to express their outsize emotions

Emilia Pérez is based on one chapter of the 2018 novel Écoute by the French author Boris Razon .

The story, part crime caper, part domestic melodrama, part meditation on the mystery of selfhood, will involve suspense, disguised identity, the search for redemption, tragic hubris.

The Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón gives one of the most transformative performances of the year .

Emilia Pérez received a mixed response at its Cannes debut early this year .

The film's wild mishmash of styles and moods never quite adds up to a coherent character portrait.

The songs, by the French composing team Clément Ducol and Camille Dalmais , aren't exactly the kind you come out tapping your toe to.