“My friends talk about their films as their babies. My films are not like my babies. My films are like ex-wives: I loved them so much, they gave me so much, I gave them so much, but now it’s over, and I don’t want to see them …”—Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón’s filmography is both inspirational and mesmerizing. When A Little Princess premiered in 1995, legendary film critic Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times, “Less an actors’ film than a series of elaborate tableaux, it has a visual eloquence that extends well beyond the limits of its story.”
Gravity, which premiered in August at the Venice Film Film Festival, prompted James Cameron to call it, “… the best space film ever done, and the movie I’ve been hungry to see for an awful long time.”
Dan P. Lee’s article in the Sept. 30 issue of The New Yorker, which also ran on Vulture online, takes readers on an insightful journey of Cuarón’s career beginning and ending with his latest masterpiece, Gravity.
