Well, it didn’t win over Richard Brody. In his “There’s a Voice Missing in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’ ” (newyorker.com, December 18, 2018), he criticizes it for its “effacement” of Cleo’s character – “her reduction to a bland and blank trope that burnishes the director’s conscience while smothering her consciousness and his own.” Brody may have a point. Even so, it doesn’t ruin the film. As Lane says, “It is the clarity of Cuarón’s eye, and the sea-like sway of his remembrance, that compel you to trust the tale he tells.”
Friday, December 21, 2018
December 17, 2018 Issue
Well, it didn’t win over Richard Brody. In his “There’s a Voice Missing in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’ ” (newyorker.com, December 18, 2018), he criticizes it for its “effacement” of Cleo’s character – “her reduction to a bland and blank trope that burnishes the director’s conscience while smothering her consciousness and his own.” Brody may have a point. Even so, it doesn’t ruin the film. As Lane says, “It is the clarity of Cuarón’s eye, and the sea-like sway of his remembrance, that compel you to trust the tale he tells.”
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