The filmmaker of Gravity and Roma marks his return, but on the small screen, with a psychological mini-series which only reveals its real subject in its final stretch. Frustrating and disappointing.
After seven years of absence, the director of Roma returns through the “series” box and signs the adaptation of a station novel. To connect the dots, and understand what could have seduced the Mexican filmmaker in this thriller, you will have to follow this story to the end, lasting almost seven hours. And despite the presence of Cate Blanchettit’s long.
The actress plays (impeccably) a star journalist who sees her life turned upside down the day she receives a novel recounting the drama she experienced twenty years previously in Italy and which she would have preferred to forget. A one-night stand, a child who comes close to drowning and a young man who dies saving him… Years later, the boy’s father (played by an excitable Kevin Kline) decides to claim his dues…
A sequence of interlocking stories, voice-overs, changes of point of view, blurring of reality and fiction… Alfonso Cuaron ventures into the territory of the psychological thriller and does not avoid clichés or clumsiness, despite the formal mastery of the whole (his damned soul Emmanuel Lubezki is in the photo). It is in its final stretch that Disclaimer turns out to be linked (and even complementary) to Roma or Gravity. It is only at the very end that we understand that this is a new portrait of a woman consumed by inner sadness and plunged into the chaos of a story as unhinged as the orbital station of Gravity. We then briefly rediscover the director’s masterful ability to capture the ferocious tragedy of abandonment and the outlineless magma of a ravaged existence.
Disclaimer, mini-series in 7 episodes. The first two are released this October 11 on AppleTV+ followed by a new episode every week until November 15. Also see via Canal + in France.
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