Intimate, emotional and extremely powerful, Roma is a masterful application of craft and composition in favor of a wholly unique story that’s born from Curaron’s own childhood.
And it manipulates sound in ways that are very important to the story (the sound of water bookends the movie in two breathtaking sequences that will blow your mind when they connect).
It’s shot in gloriously beautiful black-and-white.
I know this because I traveled to the inaugural 919 Film Festival in Chapel Hill, North Carolina specifically to experience Alfonso Cuaron’s new story on the big screen (just in case a local screening isn’t made available before the movie hits theaters).