Backlash mounts: Can Emilia Pérez survive the Oscar controversy?
NEW YORK: Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” is an Oscar contender unlike any other. It’s a musical, a trans parable, and a Mexico-set melodrama, all combined into one unique amalgamation by an international filmmaking team. And just as singularly, it’s a best picture front-runner that, it sometimes seems, no one likes. On one hand, “Emilia Pérez”…