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Director: Alfonso Cuaron

Alfonso Cuaron shoots long unbroken takes that most directors would break up, and he does it in a road comedy, a space thriller and a memoir with equal confidence. Three of his films are reviewed here: Roma at 9 out of 10, with Gravity and Y Tu Mama Tambien both at 8. Emmanuel Lubezki has shot most of his career.

A woman in a light-colored dress washes a tiled courtyard floor in black and white, with a house and potted plants visible

Roma (2018) Review

Roma (2018) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cuaron wrote, directed, shot and co-edited a black and white film about the domestic worker who raised him, in Spanish and Mixtec, with a non-professional lead. It won Director,…

Two teenage boys and an adult woman sit in a car during a road trip through Mexico.

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) Review

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two teenagers and an older woman drive to a beach that does not exist, and a narrator keeps interrupting to tell you how everybody in the…

Sandra Bullock in a spacesuit floating in orbit above Earth with debris and spacecraft visible in the darkness of space.

Gravity (2013) Review

Gravity (2013) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cuaron opens on a thirteen minute unbroken shot and then destroys everything in it. The technical achievement is genuine and permanent. The dialogue keeps explaining a film that was…