«Breaking News» BAMIGBOYE: Filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron explains how he created Roma

Film-maker Alfonso Cuaron - who made the colossal hits Gravity and Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban - has directed a new film - titled Roma - based on his childhood

The film-maker Alfonso Cuaron starts talking about cracks in a wall and wounds in a heart.

He’s talking about himself — and about us, the audience for his new film Roma.

The title refers to the affluent district of Mexico City where Cuaron — who made the colossal hits Gravity and Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, and more personal pictures such as Y Tu Mama Tambien — grew up.

Roma, too, is both personal — based on the director’s childhood and the young woman who raised him (played with powerful warmth by Yalitza Aparicio) — and colossal, because the experiences it explores, in Cuaron’s magic hands, become universal.

Cuaron began thinking about making the film (which he wrote and directed) a dozen years ago.

First, he searched his memory to summon episodes from his time with his beloved ‘Libo’ Rodriguez (in the film, her name has been changed to Cleo).

Then, four years ago, he asked if he could interview her, recording the details of her daily routine as a maid into what he called ‘The Book Of Hours’.

One of those routines was cleaning up the mess left by the family dog in the gated drive; and the movie opens with a beautifully shot scene of Cleo doing just that.

‘She has to clean it up — and she’s blamed when there’s too much of it,’ Cuaron said.

It wasn’t real, by the way. ‘It was made of food stuff. But the problem was, the dog kept trying to eat it, so we had to put Tabasco sauce on it.’

The director said he accessed so many memories that it opened emotional wounds, but he embraced them. ‘The wound is part of who you are,’ he said.

Roma is based on the director’s childhood and the young woman who raised him - played with powerful warmth by Yalitza Apariciom (pictured) 

‘It’s like repairing a crack in a wall. Or, better, the art of mending broken pottery. It’s about repairing yourself, and the end product is more beautiful than the original product.’

The film’s a masterpiece — I’ve seen it four times, and it’s still doing its repair work on me.

Roma opens at the Curzon Soho next Thursday and will be at the Curzon Bloomsbury from December 6. It will go to other cinemas nationwide from December 14, the same date it begins streaming on Netflix.

I’d like to propose a toast! The cast of Evening Standard Theatre Award-winning musical Company — led by Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone — will go in to Rak Studios in St John’s Wood on Sunday to start making the cast recording. 

Director Marianne Elliott and producer Chris Harper have secured composer Stephen Sondheim to oversee the sessions. Cameras will film each number, with excerpts to feature in a documentary about the gender-swap show. 

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Film-maker Alfonso Cuaron – who made the colossal hits Gravity and Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban – has directed a new film – titled Roma – based on his childhood

The film-maker Alfonso Cuaron starts talking about cracks in a wall and wounds in a...

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