Amazing cinematography raises this simple slice of life drama above the ordinary.
I want to love Roma more than I do. Alfonso Cuarón is one of the most talented directors currently working anywhere in the world, and the cinematography here is breathtaking. There’s just something about a carefully composed black and white image that resonates in my soul, maybe because the first best films I ever saw were oldies on TV.
And Roma is very beautiful. The suspenseful scenes are gripping. The actors are solid. But there’s a distance.
It seems to me that there is something fundamentally unknowable about Cleo – in fact that may be the point, that she can’t be put into a box and labeled simply one thing or another. But it also seemed like the movie itself was holding me at arms length, when I wanted to get all up in there with my emotions.
in the dark 