Emilia Pérez is in theaters now and on Netflix November 13. Zoe Saldaña performing “El Alegato.” Photo: Page 114, Why Not Productions, Pathé Films, France 2 Cinêma Jacques Audiard’s genre-melding noir musical, Emilia Pérez , opens with a plea. Zoe Saldaña as Rita, a jaded defense attorney for white-collar criminals, is writing her closing argument, asking the jury to exonerate her client, a corrupt bureaucrat accused of pushing his wife off a balcony. But the following musical number, a grand