In full controversy, “Emilia Pérez” wins the prize for the best European film in the Goya, the Spanish “Oscars”

The controversy around the main actress did not prevent success. The film “Emilia Pérez”, by French Jacques Audiard, won the Best European Film Prize on Saturday at the Goya, Spanish equivalent of Oscars.

This musical odyssey in Spanish on the gender transition of a Mexican drug trafficker would contribute in this category against the British film “The area of ​​interest”, the Latvian “Flow”, the Italian “the Chimera” and another French feature film , “The Count of Monte-Cristo”.

In these posts on X (Twitter at the time), exhumed at the end of January by an American journalist, the Spanish trans actress called, among other things, Islam “infection home for humanity” and mocked the anti -racist movement After the death of George Floyd, a black American killed by the police in 2020. Cell with these messages, the 52-year-old actress apologized as a member of a marginalized community “. She then defended herself from being “racist” in an interview with the Spanish version of the American channel CNN.

The actress absent from the ceremony

The Spanish press had for a time speculated on the possibility that Karla Sofía Gascón, who had to cancel her presence at several events in the United States, attended the Goya ceremony. But the actress, who lives near Madrid, did not go to Granada. The prize was received by a representative of the film distributor in Spain.

The controversy generated by the tweets of Karla Sofía Gascón occurred in the countryside for the Oscars, where Jacques Audiard’s film contributes for 13 statuettes, including those of the best international film and better female interpretation for the Trans actress. She led Netflix, who manages the promotion of the film for the Oscars, to remove the actress from all her campaigns. Jacques Audiard disavowed the actress, who announced on Friday now keep “silence”, out of respect for “Emilia Pérez” and “the incredible team that deserves it”.

The feature film, which had been successful in success since its presentation in the spring at the Cannes Film Festival, has been the subject in recent weeks of another controversy, in Mexico this time, where he was criticized for appropriating himself With lightness the tragedies linked to narcobanditism. In an interview with the specialized media Deadline, Jacques Audiard defended her work and recalled that he wanted to “make an opera”, not “a documentary”. “This requires strong stylization,” he said, rejecting criticism of the lack of “realism” of the film.