{"id":44263,"date":"2019-02-17T14:18:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=44263"},"modified":"2019-02-18T07:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:56:21","slug":"roma-alfanso-cuaron-2018-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=44263","title":{"rendered":"Roma (Alfanso Cuaron, 2018): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reviewed by Gloria Kaye.\u00a0 Viewed at the 2019 Santa Barbara Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, Roma is one of the most outstanding films of this decade.\u00a0 Roma\u2019s leading lady, Yalitza Aparigio, was a first time film actor.\u00a0 Her performance was flawless as a servant named Cleo to a family in Mexico City.\u00a0 She displayed her acting ability in many scenes.\u00a0 She was a caretaker to the children, lover to her loser martial artist with whom she became pregnant, and confidant to Sofia who was getting a divorce from her husband. The scene in which she gives birth to a stillborn child is filled with drama and emotion.\u00a0 This was a scene that could have been over acted, but her performance was flawless.<\/p>\n

Watching Cleo, who is of indigenous decent, was like watching the perfection of a precious creation in nature.\u00a0 Nothing could be improved upon.\u00a0 She was so skillfully directed by Alfonso Cuaron, who captured every facial expression and nuance of her body movements.\u00a0 As she moved through the house picking up after the family, she did so with grace\u00a0and economical movements.\u00a0 I marveled at how she could navigate a steep staircase while carrying an enormous bundle of dirty clothes.<\/p>\n

The themes were basically the boundary and plight of a servant, and the plight of the soon to be divorced wife and mother.\u00a0 Early on in the film, we see the husband going on a business trip, when in fact he had made plans to leave the family.\u00a0 The unfolding of the struggle the two women share is central to the plot and represents the universal struggle experienced by many women.\u00a0 In both cases, Cleo and Sophia work through their issues and move onto experience a personal freedom.<\/p>\n

Although this was a serious film, the sequence in which the wife tries to navigate an uncommonly large car into a small garage like space was quite funny.\u00a0 Slightly drunk, she bashes into the walls of the garage.\u00a0 When she manages to finally park the car, she gets out and says to Cleo that we, as women, are always alone and on our own.\u00a0 She decides to take the boat of a car on its final journey and the entire family goes to the beach.\u00a0 The children are swept into an undercurrent and call for help.\u00a0 Although\u00a0Cleo cannot swim, she bravely entered into the ocean and saved the children.<\/p>\n

The street scenes of Mexico City were filmed in such a way that the viewer felt present in the bustle and chaos of the street.\u00a0 Although the story was somewhat weak and disjointed, the acting made up for any flaw in the storyline.<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Gloria Kaye.\u00a0 Viewed at the 2019 Santa Barbara Film Festival. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, Roma is one of the most outstanding films of this decade.\u00a0 Roma\u2019s leading lady, Yalitza Aparigio, was a first time film actor.\u00a0 Her performance was flawless as a servant named Cleo to a family in Mexico City.\u00a0 She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/247008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44265,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44263\/revisions\/44265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}