Alfonso Cuarón's Roma gets a stunning first trailer
The new film from the director of Children of Men and Gravity is a beautiful widescreen black-and-white drama set in Mexico City in the early 1970s
Alfonso Cuarón is a great filmmaker. He’s made the lived-in dystopia sci-fi Children of Men, balletic space survival film Gravity and sexy road movie Y Tu Mama Tambien – he even directed the one good Harry Potter film (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban). Word is that Cuarón’s new film Roma, a black-and-white drama centred on a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in 70s Mexico City, is another masterwork. The jury at this year’s Venice Film Festival certainly thought so, awarding it top prize the Golden Lion, beating out the likes of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, Damien Chazelle’s First Man, and Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria for top spot.
The first trailer for Roma has arrived online today, and we can see what all the fuss has been about. Shot by Cuarón himself, the film’s widescreen black and white photography is stunning and evocative, while first-time actor Yalitza Aparicio is being suggested as a best actress contender this awards season.
This is a deeply personal film from the Mexican director, with Roma’s press release describing it as Cuarón’s “artful love letter to the women who raised him,” finding the director “drawing on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s.” This is Cuarón’s first project since 2013’s Gravity, which went on to win seven Academy Awards at the 2014 ceremony, including best director for Cuarón.
Unfortunately for Scottish film fans, there may be very little chance of seeing Roma on the big screen, with its distributor Netflix only releasing the film in Curzon cinemas, none of which are north of the border. Take a look at the first trailer in the player above or on YouTube here
Roma will be in select Curzon cinema from 29 Nov and on Netflix from 14 Dec