Roma

“When I was old, you were there, but you were someone else.” I don’t even know where to start with this one, so all I’ll say is that despite having only seen this one other time (in 2018, when I was 15) and not having particular understood or appreciated it then there are still so many images from it that stuck so clearly in my mine. I knew where the imagery was going before it went there. There’s a sense of inevitability in the way the visual language flows into and around itself that I have seen so few people other than Alfonso Cuarón be able to pull off, and I feel so blessed that he was able to make this movie on this big of a scale with this much creative control. I will forever be stunned that it exists at all.