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Roma (2018)

Drama | 135 minutes
3,46 677 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 135 minuten

Country: Mexico / United States

Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón

Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira and Daniela Demesa

IMDb score: 7,6 (177.308)

Releasedate: 25 August 2018

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Roma plot

"There are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform us as individuals."

Set in 1970s Mexico City, 'Roma' paints a portrait of a middle-class family. Over the course of a year, we follow the highs and lows of the family. Central is the maid Cleo.

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Onderhond

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Doesn't represent much.

The whining about the Netflix release of this film perfectly illustrates the old-fashioned state of mind in which the film world is still stuck. I'm glad I didn't have to spend a cent (extra) on this, a movie like this in the cinema seems like a real horror to me.

Visually it is quite poor. Vee long takes yes, but I would hardly dare to call it tracking shots. There has to be something to track for that. Usually the camera moves excruciatingly slowly over a set path and the action adapts itself, which is quite different from the scenes where, for example, a To or PT Anderson have been praised. Bit lazy.

The black and white was especially very gray. Now this film also has the misfortune of being the first modern black and white film after Shadow (at least, the one that passed on my menu), but I think you can do more with this style these days. Cuarón rarely comes out with really nice shots, mostly it's just gray posturing.

The story wasn't very interesting either, but that probably has to do with the fact that I couldn't do much with the stylization. Pace is slow, drama is on top of it and the characters didn't bother me at all. Roma is ultimately an uber-average arthouse film. Instead of giving 10EUR to a ticket, take a Netflix subscription for a month and you get a lot of much better movies.

1.5*

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tbouwh

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The most beautiful movie memory in ages comes from a director who is a master of silent storytelling. The core of Cuáron is always that the (political) truth is to be found in the margins; in the background, in the far corner of the frame. Virtually everything appears to us visually, a major cleaning of narrative, after which the essence remains. The urgency of Cleo's embraced existence is captured in a truly breathtaking imagery of living black and white.

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hvdriel

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Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

An intimately told story about a small life in a big turbulent city in a turbulent country in a turbulent period, in which you slowly sway on the waves of washing water from a cleaning bucket and finally slosh in the raging waves of the sea.

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