EMELIA PEREZ

Monday 14th April 8pm

A film from France, Mexico, Belgium and the USA in Spanish and English with English subtitles

In modern-day Mexico, overqualified and exploited lawyer Rita is wasting her talents working for a large firm which is far better at whitewashing criminal garbage than at serving justice. But an unexpected way out appears, the sort of offer that cannot be refused: to help feared cartel boss Juan "Little Hands" Del Monte--aka Manitas--retire from his business and

disappear forever. Manitas has a plan he's been fine-tuning in secret for years: to become, at last, the woman he's always dreamed of becoming.

                   
Tickets £6.50                                       

(Run time 2hr. 12min) 

There is a lot of high powered drama in this story, a love affair, confessions, a kidnapping and a shootout. The plot of this movie crams a year's worth of soap opera stories into two hours, but I was hooked on this story from the start.   

Robert Roten  Laramie Movie Scope

French filmmaker Jacque Audiard's unique, provocative, compassionate, daring operatic crime drama stars transgender Spanish actress Karla Gascon- delivering a complex dual performance-  with support from Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez.                                                  Susan Granger SSG Syndicate