Alfonso Cuarón delves into his childhood for 'Roma' and already talk turns to Oscars
TELLURIDE, Colo. - Over the course of his filmmaking career, Alfonso Cuaron has explored everything from outer space ("Gravity") to a dystopian future ("Children of Men") to a world populated by wizards and fantastical creatures ("Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban").
With his newest film, the 56-year-old director is somewhere that's closer to home but no less rich in mystery or magic: his own past.
Set in Mexico City in the early 1970s and inspired by his childhood memories, Cuaron's upcoming drama "Roma" follows a year in the life of a middle-class family and its nanny, Cleo, chronicling the dramas, small and large, that at times fray their relationships and the love that binds them together.
Shot in black and white with a cast mixing professional actors and non-actors and a scope at once intimate and epic, "Roma" received rapturous reviews in its initial outings at the Venice and Telluride film festivals for its blend of naturalism and poetry and its
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