Your favourite Film

This time we will be completing an essay on a Film we really like. 

You will be following next steps :

 - to write the PITCH of your film 

- to apply the model proposed in "Every story is the same" to your film. 

- Prepare a short presentation where you will be adding: 

• the basic data of the film. 
• the plot, aspects you liked and scenes to point out. 
• technical issues, aspects you liked and scenes to point out. 
• personal recommendation.

The Pitch could be something like that: - A middle class family and their nanny's quiet life - A divorce and a non wanted pregnancy - They confront the situation to recover a balance in their life The Story Pattern 

YOU: A happy family and their nanny.              NEED: A divorce and a pregnancy.                     GO: They need to recover their former balance. SEARCH: The mother and the nanny they confront their problems                                  FIND: They learn to live without their men. TAKE: Divorce and miscarriage                             RETURN: They find their peace                 CHANGE:: Back to their love ROMA

This a film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, two and a quarter hours of cinematic pleasure. ROMA is a 2018 movie produced by Netflix. The director Alfonso Cuarón also created “Gravity”, “Children of Men”, “Y Tu Mama Tambien” or Harry Potters  "The prisioner of  Azkaban”.

 This is the story of a family that lives in the neighbourhood of Roma in Mexico City, and more specifically the camera follows Cleo, a young domestic worker starring Yalitza Aparicio. So ROMA is like a loving portrait of the woman who raised the director, his super-nanny and a complete mosaic of Mexico society during the 70'. Cuarón is telling us his own childhood and shows us their housekeeper’s ups and downs, the same time the relationship between the different social classes in Mexico and a touch of the political situation in DF during the (repression of the students ). With a simple storytelling is describing different people's life until we feel close to them, until we really care for the characters he presents us (Cleo, the mother, the other maid, the grandma...) This film is shot in black and white, because of its social and its title, Roma reminds us of the Italian neo-realism of the 50’. It has beautiful photography, landscapes and domestic shots (in the roof of the house). Director’s filming is classical with a lazy camera that beautiful spots to shot, like the backyard of the presentation or the scenes of the father and mother car parking, which are anthological.  

 This is a film that you should watch if you miss your childhood!