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Netflix– courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
#Venezia75 – La Biennale di Venezia - Film Festival
Roma - Alfonso Cuaron
Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, with Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Marco
Graf, Daniela Demesa, Carlos Peralta, and Nancy García is his most personal
project to date. Director, writer and cinematographer Alfonso Cuaron,
chronicles a turbulent year in the lives of a middle-class family in 1970s
Mexico City. Cuaron, inspired by the women from his childhood, delivers
an artful ode to the matriarchy that shaped his world. It is a vivid portrayal
of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil, in a
country facing confrontation between a government-backed militia and student
demonstrators. Filmed in luminous black and white, Roma is an intimate, gut-wrenching and ultimately
life-affirming portrait of the ways, small and large, one family maintains its
balance in a time of personal, social and political strife.
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Carlos Somonte - Netflix– courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
“There
are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform
us as individuals. Time and space constrain us, but they also define who we
are, creating inexplicable bonds with others that flow with us at the same time
and through the same places. ROMA is
an attempt to capture the memory of events that I experienced almost fifty
years ago. It is an exploration of Mexico’s social hierarchy, where class and
ethnicity have been perversely interwoven to this date and, above all, it’s an
intimate portrait of the women who raised me in a recognition of love as a
mystery that transcends space, memory and time.”
Alfonso
Cuaron
Director’s Statement
Alfonso
Cuaron and Yalitza
Aparicio
Contessanally – Don’t miss this
beautiful film of ordinary and extraordinary domestic life – wonderful Yalitza Aparicio who had no acting
experience before this film - 8/10
