An audacious musical drama about a mob boss’s secret new life as a woman, and Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya’s spectacular fantasy saga

Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical drama flips between crime thriller and telenovela to tell an emotional story of identity, family and how the past weighs on the present. Zoe Saldaña is a revelation, singing and dancing con brio as lawyer Rita – hired by Mexican cartel boss Manitas (Karla Sofía Gascón, touching in a double role) to arrange his gender reassignment and secret new life as a woman, Emilia. Selena Gomez plays Manitas’s unwitting wife, then supposed widow, Jessi, nonplussed by “cousin” Emilia’s interest in her and her children’s lives. A sweeping melodrama of reinvention and redemption that ploughs through its absurdities with showtunes and tears.
Wednesday 13 November, Netflix

Soldiers holding chunk of enemy territory in Kursk have been learning Korean phrases and are unconcerned by threat from reinforcements

Vitalii Ovcharenko, a Ukrainian soldier, has been learning a new language: Korean. “I’ve picked up a few phrases. They are: ‘Hands up, drop your weapon and come to us slowly,’” he said. “Also: ‘Throw off your body armour and helmet.’”

Ovcharenko has been mugging up with the help of a three-page printed guide. It lists words in Ukrainian, their Korean equivalent, and a helpful transliteration.

CMA sets out potential measures, including price cap on retailers, to combat high prices and lack of choice

The government could look to offer its own low-cost baby formula under a brand such as the NHS to combat the high prices and lack of choice in the market, the UK competition watchdog has said.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that another “backstop” measure that the government could consider is to regulate and set a price or profit margin cap on retailers as a way to bring prices down for parents more rapidly.

British foreign secretary says many politicians have said ‘pretty ripe things’ about US president-elect

The British foreign secretary, David Lammy, has described his previous remarks about the US president-elect, Donald Trump, as “deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic” and a “neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath” as old news.

Keir Starmer’s government is making efforts to smooth over tensions with the incoming president, whose pledge to raise tariffs on imports into the US could hit the UK economy.

Jenny thinks Ed should say sorry for sweeping autumn leaves too close to their neighbour’s house. Ed thinks he’s done nothing wrong. You decide who should take the fall?

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Security minister says fans ‘encountered antisemitism and were attacked with unimaginable cruelty just because of their Jewishness’

Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , condemned on Friday what he described as a premeditated attack on Israeli football fans in Amsterdam during a call with his Dutch counterpart Dick Schoof , reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).

“Prime minister Netanyahu stated that he views the premeditated antisemitic attack against Israeli citizens with utmost seriousness and requested increased security for the Jewish community in the Netherlands,” his office said.

In charting the game’s transformation into a geopolitical weapon, new book serves an urgent and crucial purpose

Stick to football. It doesn’t really work does it? The big problem with sticking to football is that football doesn’t stick to football. Instead, football keeps sticking to other things, such as nation building, geopolitics, contrived Hollywood bro-ship vehicles and cruelty.

Before that football stuck to European industrial wealth and colonial governance. In the future football is promising to stick to rootless global product, the unceasing scream of the digital hive mind, and everything else. Tricky isn’t it. Does anyone just want to talk about VAR?

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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The Austrian-Iranian singer’s new wave style hits harder than ever on an excellent album inspired by a treatise from a French anarchist collective

Old-school European glamour emanates from this excellent album by Austrian-Iranian pop singer Sofie Royer – the stuff of chilled rosé on an Antibes balcony or discos in the Rimini summertime, away from the crassness of influencers and classlessness of fame.

Royer, who sings in English, French and German as well as songwriting, producing and playing most of the instruments, released one of the gems of 2022 with her second album Harlequin , which mooched elegantly through yacht rock, new wave, and untrendy 70s chansons. After the fantastic Italo-disco single Mio , this follow-up increases the tempo to a brisk yet distracted power-walk. It’s a concept album of sorts inspired by the book Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl by the French anarchist collective Tiqqun, about “consumer society’s total product and model citizen”, namely young women.