In full controversy, “Émilia Pérez” rewarded at the Goya, the Spanish Oscar equivalent

The Goya Prize for best European film was awarded on Saturday to “‘Émilia Pérez’ without” her “Emilia Perez”, note The country.

The feature film of French director Jacques Audiard, was awarded in Granada, during this Spanish ceremony, the equivalent of the Oscars, in full controversy on former tweets deemed offensive of its main actress, Karla Sofía Gascón. In these posts, exhumed at the end of January by an American journalist, the actress described, among other things, the Islam of “home of infection for humanity” and mocked the anti -racist movement after the death of George Floyd, an American black man killed by police in Minneapolis in 2020.

Gascón had apologized “as a member of a marginalized community”. But faced with the scandal, Netflix, which manages the promotion of the film for the Oscars, decided to remove the actress from all her campaigns. Audiard has disavowed the actress, who announced Friday now keep the “silence”, out of respect for the film and her team.

This musical odyssey in Spanish on the transition of genre of a Mexican drug trafficker, hitherto stolen from success since its presentation in the spring at the Cannes Festival.

Saturday, during the announcement of the victory of Émilia Perez to the Goya, “there was a complicated moment”, note the Vanguard. The prize was received by representatives of the film distributor in Spain who “facing hatred and ridiculous” called “to more cinema and more culture”, reports the Catalan daily.

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