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Watch: Alfon­so Cuarón In Colour

10 Dec 2018

Words by Luís Azevedo

Three young people embracing in a close group, one wearing a floral dress, the others in casual clothing. The image has a darkened, moody tone.
Three young people embracing in a close group, one wearing a floral dress, the others in casual clothing. The image has a darkened, moody tone.
In a new video essay, Luís Azeve­do takes us on a jour­ney through the Mex­i­can filmmaker’s colour­ful worlds.

To cel­e­brate the release of Alfon­so Cuarón’s won­drous new film, Roma, on 14 Decem­ber, video essay­ist Luís Azeve­do has tak­en a look back through the Mex­i­can writer/director’s career to find out how his sig­na­ture style has evolved over time.

In this immer­sive three-minute video essay, Azeve­do weaves togeth­er clips from all of Cuarón’s eight fea­tures to date – begin­ning with 1991’s Sólo con Tu Pare­ja – to show how this mas­ter film­mak­er has used colour to add depth and expres­sion to his unique stories.

It reveals not only how Cuarón’s own visu­al lan­guage has changed down the years, but how a film’s colour palette and com­bi­na­tions of light and shad­ow can direct­ly impact our emo­tion­al response to a piece of work.

Watch the video below and check out Beyond the Frame on YouTube.

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