Despite its huge international success, including a leading 13 Oscar nominations, Emilia Perez faces criticism in Mexico, where the transgender narco-musical has been accused of trivialising raging drug-related violence. (Also read: Emilia Pérez leads Oscar nominations with 13 nods, Wicked and The Brutalist follow closely with 10 each) Emilia Perez, a musical set in Mexico, is streaming on Netflix. French director Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language production shattered the record for the most Academy Award nominations for a non-English-language movie on Thursday after winning four Golden Globe Awards. It will vie for the Oscars for best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay and best international film, as well as multiple song, score and sound nods. But in Mexico, where a spiral of cartel-related violence has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the reaction has been less enthusiastic. “The film trivializes the problem of the missing in Mexico,” argues a petition on the Change.org website that had more than 11,000 signatures calling for the movie to be pulled before its scheduled Mexican release on Thursday. “It is an …