Alfonso Cuaróns Roma sleepte op het filmfestival van Venetië de Gouden Leeuw in de wacht en zet zijn triomftocht voort op het Toronto International Film Festival.

De film over een Mexicaans gezin in de jaren zeventig kreeg ook daar lovende kritieken, onder meer van Moonlight– en If Beale Street Could Talk-regisseur Barry Jenkins.

“Roma is fucking heerlijk,” schreef Jenkins op Twitter. “Cuarón is in topvorm en heeft een persoonlijke, politieke en krachtige film gemaakt die een emotionele en hartverscheurende impact maakt.”

Yeah, ROMA is fucking glorious. So wonderful to see an artist operating at peak performance level on such a personal, vigorous piece. The aesthetic is both personal and political here. The aesthetic is wielded to a wonderfully emotive, devastating effect.

— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) September 11, 2018

ROMA is such an extraordinary achievement. Visually striking, aurally absolutely stunning but ever not at the sacrifice of its deep well of humanity. #ROMA #TIFF18

— Erik Anderson (@awards_watch) September 11, 2018

https://twitter.com/ScottFeinberg/status/1038973916922953729

ROMA: No hyperbole – this is a masterpiece. (And I cried my god damn eyes out) #TIFF18

— Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) September 11, 2018

Just out of the first Toronto screening of Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma and feeling the high that comes when you’ve seen a miraculous work of art. Where does Cuaron’s film stand at the fest? Lets just say there’s Roma and then there’s everything else. The Oscar race is officially on.

— Peter Travers (@petertravers) September 11, 2018

Roma: Masterful stuff from one of our finest contemporary masters. It feels like a grand culmination in so many ways, drawing on visual/narrative/performance devices Cuaron has honed from Y Tu Mama to Gravity. Exciting to think what that means for his future #TIFF18

— Ethan Alter (@ethanalter) September 11, 2018

Alfonso Cuarón receives a huge standing ovation for #Roma here at #TIFF18. An incredibly raw and emotional piece of filmmaking about a family falling apart and then slowly being put back together. Once it grabs you, it never lets go. I am floored. pic.twitter.com/opKEkC1EfB

— Erik Davis (@ErikDavis) September 11, 2018

https://twitter.com/PiyaSRoy/status/1039306320942440450

Alfonso Cuaron’s #Roma is extraordinary. Such a moving humanistic work #Tiff18 pic.twitter.com/PNTfO4lD5o

— Brent Lang (@BrentALang) September 11, 2018

Bron: IndieWire