Time and the New York Movie Critics Circle call Roma the best movie of the year. An opinion shared by other media: the New York Times, Vox, Independent, Sight & Sound, even the Roger Ebert site. In fact, Roma aired in a limited cinema, even though it off-aired first on Venezuelan International Movie Festival, last August. However, in mid-December 2018, it was released on Netflix. The story is very different from the nuances of fantasy as in Prisoner of Azkaban, Gravity, and especially Children of Men. This time, the Cuarón rotates 180 degrees because there is no dystopia to the end, the corrupt government of the magic world, or the astronauts who are near death in space.
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There are no portraits of big humans with great adventures. He made movies about people in real life. The story of his childhood in a neighborhood called Roma, in Mexico. At the end of the movie, he slips the words of the Libo (for Libo) as a sign that this movie is indeed an offering to Liborian Rodríguez, a waiter and caregiver as a child. Everything that happens in Cuarón’s movie based on its memory. He recorded Mexico in the early 1970s including housing complexes, clothes, toys, until the tiles used in this movie supervised by Cuarón. He really wants to make the audience feel all of his little memories of Libo exactly as he feels.
Roma is very personal for him. Cuarón audited around 110 people for one and a half years to find Libo actor. For the sake of pursuing perfection, the search is only one of the processes that he must go through. In one scene, Cuarón even hired more than a thousand extras to re-enact the Corpus Christi Massacre for the tension he wanted to present. He is truly a patient storyteller.
