Ema

Name: Ema
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Released: August 13, 2021
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Antonia Giesen, Catalina Saavedra, Cristián Suárez, Eduardo Paxeco, Gael García Bernal

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Music Box Films | Release Date: August 13, 2021 | R

Starring: Antonia Giesen, Catalina Saavedra, Cristián Suárez, Eduardo Paxeco, Gael García Bernal, Giannina Fruttero, Josefina Fiebelkorn, Mariana Di Girolamo, Mariana Loyola, Paola Giannini, Paula Luchsinger, Santiago Cabrera

Summary: After a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation, in this incendiary drama about art, desire, and the modern family from director Pablo Larraín.

Director: Pablo Larraín

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Music

Rating: R

Runtime: 107 min

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Tom Duggins

Apr 30, 2020

Brilliantly acted, shot with precision and style, this is a deconstruction of the ‘nuclear family’ that cries out for a second or third viewing. Read full review

Jake Cole

Sep 8, 2019

In the film, the literal union of bodies is the only logical means of conveying the reestablishment of emotional bonds. Read full review

Empire Ella Kemp

Apr 24, 2020

Following Jackie, Pablo Larraín offers another powerful examination of grief, capturing all of the confusing and fascinating layers of human relationships. Despite the heavy subject matter, it’s intoxicating. Read full review

Dom Sinacola

Aug 10, 2021

Ostensibly, Ema revels in the pulling down of walls, insistent on stripping away the artifice of civility and systemic conservatism. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Sep 11, 2019

Ema is Larraín at his most freeform. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Aug 18, 2021

Di Girólamo delivers a performance that is, like the combustible fuel inside the tank strapped to her back here and there throughout the film, intense, hot, destructive — and hard to look away from. Read full review

David Rooney

Sep 9, 2019

A work of self-conscious experimentalism that's too stilted and distancing to invite involvement, it gets some mileage out of the pulsating rhythms of reggaetón street dance but otherwise is so fragmented it lacks forward motion. Read full review

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