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The old kingpins are locked up, their sons vying for control.

Prior to Gutierrez-Ochoa there has been a long history of Mexican kingpins faking death to avoid capture, with El Mencho himself rumored killed on several occasions.

It said, in so many words, they had been wrongly accused of being “kingpins” and did not deserve their 20-year sentences.

A lawyer, a kingpin, and his wife walk into a musical, and “Emilia Pérez” is born, Frenchman Jacques Audiard’s full-bodied, colorful epic about transformation, redemption and finding one’s voice in a hard world.

“She gave us the tools and the weapons to do what we needed to do to go after the kingpins.”