For the filmmaker Jacques Audiard, creating a movie musical meant learning the genre conventions from scratch.

Editor Juliette Welfling tells IndieWire about editing Jacques Audiard's Netflix musical, which emphasizes female liberation via song and dance.

Early in the film Emilia Pérez, a lawyer named Rita (Zoe Saldaña) is kidnapped and stuffed inside a van, with a hood placed over her head. “Are you afraid?” her kidnapper asks. Rita, trembling and breathing heavily as she’s taken from one vehicle to another,

Emilia Pérez” begins with a choral overture; a prologue characterized by electronic, almost Imogen Heap-style vocals. The screen is dark, and the camera quickly moves in on a band as they play along with the robotic tones,