Reserved and immersive, introspective and outward-looking, old and new-some have accused Roma of being too calculated in what it tries to do, the balancing act it tries to pull off. But the base aesthetic and narrative is Fellini, or long-lost Mexican neorealism, or Tati’s Playtime but with sight gags replaced by social concern and personal reverie. The sound mix is Dolby Atmos and enveloping. The camera gazes and moves in trans-plane sequencing, giving us foreground, mid-ground and background elements in stark digital clarity. Not even entirely focused on her, perhaps more focused on its classicist compositions of a place that no longer exists in the way Cuarón remembers it. The camera sits back, black-and-white, focused not on the bourgeois children that represent the cinematographer-writer-director and his siblings growing up in Mexico City several decades ago, but moreso on the indigenous woman (Yalitza Aparicio) that cares for them and the household. Roma Year: 2014 Director: Alfonso Cuarón Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta Rating: RĪlfonso Cuarón’s most intimate film is also his most distancing. Here are the 20 best sad movies on Netflix:ġ.
The movies we’ve selected here are the best sad movies that Netflix has to offer. But you don’t want to settle for any ol’ sob story.
Sad movies can be a balm for our own pain, company for our misery, as the stories that unfold remind us that grief is part of our shared human experience and that heartache and melancholy are simply a part of life. Sometimes you just need to cozy up and turn on a tearjerker.
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