Alfonso Cuarón
6 titles · global slow cinema
In Children of Men, nobody has been born for eighteen years and Britain has made itself a police state around the camps it puts immigrants in. Cuarón films that collapse in long unbroken takes, and uses the same technique on a spacewalk that goes wrong in Gravity and on a Mexico City household in Roma, where a family's bad year is watched from the eye level of the woman who cleans up after it. The camera keeps moving and the cut never comes to let you out. You stay in the room for as long as the people in it do.
Signature
- Very long takes that travel through the whole event.
- Domestic labour and class kept in frame, often at its edge.
- Wide lenses close to faces, lit as though by whatever is in the room.
- Private memory reconstructed with very heavy machinery.
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