melodrama

How a 30-year-old singer, born in Argentina and raised in Spain, manages to channel the smoldering melodrama of Latin music’s golden era with such uncanny precision remains a bit of a mystery.

As well as winning best pop artist at Saturday's ceremony, she put on one of the night's highest-concept performances - a five-act melodrama about the cruelty of the music industry and her creative rebirth.

Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” with its deft balance of humor and melodrama, was an early favorite to win here, but missing a best picture nomination has made that proposition iffy.

Corbet: The film was made in the style of a 1950s melodrama.

As distanced from melodrama as possible, her performance is one of internalized grief.