Alfonso Cuarón has given out on the existential tripper in outer space (”Gravity”), described the years spent in a last desperate sigh (”Your mom!”) and re-created the future apocalypse (”Children of men”). But his undoubted toughest challenge so far has been to portray the childhood memories from the neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City from the beginning of the 1970s.
– ”Roma” is my most necessary film. Ninety percent is taken from my own memory. The beginning of the 70’s was clearly a period that gave me scars for life – at the same time that it was torn deep wounds in the collective mexican psyche. I have always liked to balance the personal with the social context. ”Roma” is the closest to what I always dreamed of achieving as a filmmaker, ” says Cuarón on a risig telephone connection over the Atlantic ocean.
At the beginning of the fall became ”Roma” the first Netflix-the movie that won a golden lion. While DN is waiting on a call with Cuarón, he has just found out that “Rome” has been nominated for three Golden Globe for best director, screenplay and foreign language film.
” I’m happy and surprised. It feels amazing! says Cuarón pliktskyldigt and allows more plays surprised than genuinely shaken up.
husan Cleo closely get to experience how her host family is undergoing a slow decay. At the same time shaken the mexican society of social tension. Something that culminates in the terrible El Hanco-the massacre in June of 1971 where the students who demonstrated for democracy were murdered on the open streets of regimtrogna paramilitary groups.
” My films are always an interplay between characters and their surrounding environment. ”Your mom also!” is a thrilleraktigt discomfort when the characters explore the social themes that shaped the beginning of the 2000s. In ”Gravity” is space’s endless void is a metaphor for rollfigurernas personal travel, ” explains the 57-year-old mexican director.
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”Roma,” was also his way of dealing with feelings of guilt for having lived in a privileged bubble as a white middle-class boy – unaware of social conflicts, racism and klasstrukturer in the home country.
Alfonso Cuarón. Photo: Matt Baron/IBL
” I didn’t want to convey any overt political message, but themes such as gender, class and racism is there as a background theme. Mexico still has major social problems that are linked to these themes, which are even more acute today. But Mexico is just as a microcosm, a human laboratory”, for the rest of the world.
”Roma,” already in 2006 after the filming of the dystopian sci-fi thriller ”Children of men” after the P D James novel. Cuarón began to write on the different script, if krisdrabbbade families with absent fathers, but to really reach the right smärtpunkten. The sevenfold Oscar ”Gravity” got him to land on earth and start looking in their own internal.
– Quite quickly it became clear that the film is based on three pillars; my own memory, black-and-white images and, to tell you out of my barnflickas point of view. This is the film’s dna, ” says Cuarón.
He complemented their own recollection by djupintervjua his former nanny, the now 74-year-old Liboria the ”Libo” Rodriguez, who made an entrance when he was nine months old. She is also the model for the film’s Cleo, played by amateur Yalitza Aparicio currently training to be a kindergarten teacher.
” It was the first time I had to approach me ”Libo” as an individual, as a woman and not had the child’s view of an adult. Suddenly I realized that she had a completely private life.
also her to thank for that he became a director. It was the ”Libo” who took the brothers Cuarón to the local cinema-for example movies like “eagle’s nest” with Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton and John He rymdthriller “Marooned”, which was a source of inspiration for the ”Gravity”.
When Alfonso Cuarón well sat down, it took only three weeks to write the entire script. As if it was a part of the autonomic nervous system.
” It was as if the script wrote itself without any regard to a narrative. I trusted blindly on my intuition and that I after all yrkesår developed a ”narrative muscle”.
I would be lying if I said that ”Roma” was an enjoyable experience. On the contrary, it was often painful and a very strange feeling.
He reconstructed his ancestral home meticulously – ”70 percent” of the furniture is borrowed from relatives from all over Mexico. To return to the past was no child’s play. For Cuarón worked, ”Roma” is not that any sweet Madeleine cake into a romantic world that fled.
” Nicholas, I would be lying if I said that ”Roma” was an enjoyable experience. On the contrary, it was often painful and a very strange feeling to place the actor who looked like figures in my childhood and place them in my childhood environments. Suddenly I could hardly decide if I was a part of the scenes, witnessed them or recovered them, ” he says.
in the intuitive sense he showed not the script for either the film crew or the actors. He dared not even consult their Best colleagues and compatriots Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu.
“I played in the film chronologically in order to play around with actors’ expectations and beliefs. The unpredictability made it more alive and organic, a bit like life itself, ” he says.
It seemed to work. At least in the Liboria the ”Libo” Rodriguez cried when she saw the film, ” explains Cuarón:
She said: “it was just when it was, just so”. But she cried not for their own sake, but was more concerned for the children and the pain they went through. She is a wonderful human being, ” says Cuarón, who see her as a natural part of their family.
He hopes to ”Roma” can act as a time machine that triggers the memory also for the audience.
” I also hope that the film will inspire the audience to want to get in touch with their own memories.
