The photographer eloped.

Actually, I like the director Alfonso Cuarón best.

Because Alfonso Cuarón, the best director, holds several posts in Rome. He is a director, screenwriter, editor, photographer and producer. Compared with other filmmakers, he really created all kinds of movie myths. Looking back on the history of Oscar, it is extremely rare to nominate the best director and award it to a foreign language film director who is not a native English speaker. Besides Ferini, our Ang Lee was nominated for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Rome, a private letter shining with epic light.

China audience is no stranger to Alfonso Cuarón. Before that, his Gravity was also fruitful in China. This time, he returned to his hometown and made a film set in his childhood.

The main story revolves around an upper-middle class family in Mexico City. The hostess Sophia has four children, but her husband eloped with San Xiao on the pretext of business trip. Sophia kept the truth from her children and continued to maintain her family life. Cleo, the maid at home, is gentle and kind, and has a lover relationship with a martial arts man. Unfortunately, the sudden pregnancy made the man abandon her cruelly. But the hostess Sophia didn't abandon Cleo, but also helped Cleo give birth to a child. The four children in the family seem to be a place of hope, and Caron is actually one of them.

From the perspective of ordinary people, the film truly depicts the Mexican society in the period of change in the 1970s, combining the fate change of a small family with the grand background of the times, with delicate emotions and epic temperament. In Caron's story, men are irresponsible at the beginning, abandoned at the end, and women are tenacious and self-reliant, which makes the film hazy with a feminist aura.

In the film, Sophia said to Cleo, "We women are always lonely." Accusing men of no responsibility in the family seems to be a very private secret pain in Caron's life.

On June 197 1 day, Mexico experienced the Corpus Christi massacre, and more than 100 students were killed by the Mexican military during the parade. In the film, Caron returns to this tragedy. The students demonstrated in the street holding flags, while Cleo took the bus to buy a crib for the upcoming child. In this movement, she met her former lover, and this lover became the chief culprit of this tragedy. She was so excited that her amniotic fluid broke and she gave birth to a dead baby.

Although this short story sounds incredible, it really happened to Caron's childhood maid. Under the great changes in this background, the fate of the little people may be rewritten, and Cleo's fate is the most powerful witness of this era.

The style of the film is very personal, and it doesn't care about entertainment or ordinary audience at all. It is a purely audio-visual language show. Although there are no expensive special effects and famous movie stars, each scene uses a large number of extras, which completely restores the sense of the times and the details of life in the neighborhood, so it is more difficult to shoot than those special effects blockbusters. Thousands of people performing in an orderly way in a scene is a rare visual spectacle!

In order to better shape that special era in Mexico, Caron adopted Alexa65 digital black and white photography. This is the first time he tried to shoot his own feature film with a camera, and he took the best photography with this palm. It is not difficult for viewers who have seen this film to find that the photography of Rome is at its peak. From the beginning of the film, Caron has been very restrained and accurately captured the trajectory of the characters. Including the heroine Cleo's walking, mobile housework, father's careful parking, family's expectation, and several sets of lens switching of this car, the parking stopped in Caron's lens with a sense of ceremony.