Roma (2018)
Country: MEX
Technical: bw/2.39:1 135m
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Cast: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Nancy García García
Synopsis:
Life for a middle-class family in Mexico City over the year 1970-71, as seen through the eyes of their live-in nanny and domestic, Cleo. Daddy leaving to be with his mistress, Cleo getting pregnant by an Halcón (counter-revolutionary), New Year disrupted by a forest fire on their friends' country estate, a family visit to the cinema, a holiday at the beach, etc.
Review:
Cuarón picks out details from his memories of childhood - the dog shit on the driveway, the walk into town, mama's driving skills, the student demonstrations - and weaves a slender narrative around the family's growing realization of Cleo's immense contribution to their lives, and his own growing awareness of the links between class and ethnicity. The cinematography is fully worthy of the Oscar it received, deep-focused and ravishingly balanced and contrasted, while Cuarón builds whole sequences around pans and tracking shots. Aparicio is a dignified presence as the indigenous maid, the focus of much pathos and yet towering over the film as magnificently as the director's compassionately observant camera.
Country: MEX
Technical: bw/2.39:1 135m
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Cast: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Nancy García García
Synopsis:
Life for a middle-class family in Mexico City over the year 1970-71, as seen through the eyes of their live-in nanny and domestic, Cleo. Daddy leaving to be with his mistress, Cleo getting pregnant by an Halcón (counter-revolutionary), New Year disrupted by a forest fire on their friends' country estate, a family visit to the cinema, a holiday at the beach, etc.
Review:
Cuarón picks out details from his memories of childhood - the dog shit on the driveway, the walk into town, mama's driving skills, the student demonstrations - and weaves a slender narrative around the family's growing realization of Cleo's immense contribution to their lives, and his own growing awareness of the links between class and ethnicity. The cinematography is fully worthy of the Oscar it received, deep-focused and ravishingly balanced and contrasted, while Cuarón builds whole sequences around pans and tracking shots. Aparicio is a dignified presence as the indigenous maid, the focus of much pathos and yet towering over the film as magnificently as the director's compassionately observant camera.
Country: MEX
Technical: bw/2.39:1 135m
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Cast: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Nancy García García
Synopsis:
Life for a middle-class family in Mexico City over the year 1970-71, as seen through the eyes of their live-in nanny and domestic, Cleo. Daddy leaving to be with his mistress, Cleo getting pregnant by an Halcón (counter-revolutionary), New Year disrupted by a forest fire on their friends' country estate, a family visit to the cinema, a holiday at the beach, etc.
Review:
Cuarón picks out details from his memories of childhood - the dog shit on the driveway, the walk into town, mama's driving skills, the student demonstrations - and weaves a slender narrative around the family's growing realization of Cleo's immense contribution to their lives, and his own growing awareness of the links between class and ethnicity. The cinematography is fully worthy of the Oscar it received, deep-focused and ravishingly balanced and contrasted, while Cuarón builds whole sequences around pans and tracking shots. Aparicio is a dignified presence as the indigenous maid, the focus of much pathos and yet towering over the film as magnificently as the director's compassionately observant camera.