Roma is a personal story for Cuaron and one can feel that as you watch it. There is a great sense of love emanating from each frame. Cuaron pays attention to small details, immerses us in the world of his story, and engages us in a way that only a story teller with this amount of enthusiasm for their subject can do. Roma is one of those films that one feels fortunate to have been able to share in once you have watched it.
Roma is the sort of film which reminds us why it is called the "silver screen." Cuaron's use of the silver screen (black and white photography) is masterful. I was enraptured with each scene just by the sheer beauty of it. He creates a world that feels hyper realistic through his use of unreal colour tones. He makes the ordinary extraordinary with each shot. Roma is an absolutely gorgeous film to watch.
But the beauty of Roma doesn't end there. Again, likely fueled by his personal attachment to this story, Cuaron weaves a story that in itself is truly beautiful. The narrative of a domestic worker and her relationship to the family she works for set against political turmoil, shifting values, economic inequality, sexism, and all the melange of societal ills in the western world finds the very humanity of people in a way that is so powerful, meaningful, so... beautiful. I had to just sit quietly as the movie ended reflecting on what I had seen and experienced.
Thank you Alfonso for making such a beautiful film for us to enjoy.
Roma
Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Fernando Grediaga, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Latin Lover
Writer/Director: Alfonso Cuaron
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