A very warm welcome for Alfonso Cuarón, back at the Venice Film Festival after a few years. His latest visit was back in 2018 with his latest feature, Roma, a majestic black and white fresco of the social milieu he was born in, ‘round the year 1970. The Golden Lion he was eventually awarded was his since the second day of screenings. This year, Cuarón will present Disclaimer, a TV mini series starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline.
A prolific filmmaker, Alfonso Cuarón owes his consecration with his 2013 film Gravity, which he was discouraged from making and which he approached very tentatively. If anything, though, the idea of making a movie starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock must have felt very attractive, whatever the unknown variables of working with superstars might be. The issue, if we may call it that, with the cast is that the cast is all there – two people, and by the way, one of those leaves quite early in the movie, so what we have is a one-woman show whose weight is all Sandra Bullock’s to carry. Seven Oscars, Best Direction included. Off to the next, now.
Might the cast-of-one affair have been why Cuarón opted for an ensemble for his following movie? Roma is such a movie, with lives and destinies intertwine in a visual, as well as narrational, plot that is a feast for the eyes. A further three Oscar for Cuarón, which propelled him into the Gotha of New Mexican Cinema together with Guillermo del Toro and ALejandro González Iñárritu. The three not only created a new, original characterization of cinema, not only for their native country, but for the whole world.
Based on the 2015 novel by Renée Knight, the series follows the story of acclaimed television journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett), who has built her reputation by exposing the wrongdoings and transgressions of others, never imagining that she would find herself on th...
Mile after mile, on the road on in life, for two teenage boys and one woman getting to know their own self.
The third episode of the saga, a memorable, stylistically excellent jewel that fits perfectly into J. K. Rowling’s narrative universe.
Dystopic sci-fi flick adapted from P. D. James’ book. Cuarón corroborates his authorship as an acute, prophetic filmmaker.
The Academy’s blessing reaches Curarón in space, establishing him as a filmmaker at peak maturity.
In the main competition at the VFF, Roma confirms we are talking of a filmmaker of outstanding abilities, whose look pierces through the sky as easily as it does souls.
