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Roma (2018)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jim and A.Ron have seen the highly acclaimed Netflix original, "Roma", and we're conflicted. On the one hand, we can see what it's seen as great; it's beautiful to look at, and it's final act is as good as anything you'll see anywhere and is widely accessible. The problem is that it asks you to crawl through 90 minutes tedious everyday life before you get there, which is probably the point, but it's not going to be something everyone is willing to interface with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. We've got an interesting first-run bald movie this week. It's a Netflix original that came out

0:08.4

several weeks ago, over a month ago. Yeah, isn't this a 2018 movie? Yes. Okay. Yes. I'm sure if it came out in

0:16.4

late November or December, but it is it had it was of some notes because it was made by Alfonso Coron, who is a filmmaker of notes.

0:27.3

It was shot black and white.

0:29.2

It's like a very historical loosely autobiographyiorgiful

0:34.0

based on a life of Alfonso and where he grew up

0:37.0

and interestingly it is nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture, among others.

0:43.5

So it got a lot of like instant credibility or people taking up and sitting up and taking notice

0:49.0

because like late last year we were debating about the things we were going to do differently

0:52.4

with Bald Move and Bald Move TV and, you know, we're talking about like, you know, all the stuff at Netflix and Amazon and everyone, Hulu is doing these original films and we're like, man man how long will it be till one of these things wins an Academy Award and by God like weeks later after that conversation here is Roma nominated already

1:12.4

So having said all that we thought

1:15.9

since there wasn't any like a really big you know ticket movie that we want to

1:20.4

see this week we go back and check out Roma since it does have this

1:23.2

you know pedigree this this internet fascination with it so having said that what

1:30.5

did you think of this black and white film this just so people know well I guess

1:34.7

we should talk about a general opinions and I can we can explain briefly what the film's

1:37.9

about that we get spoilers okay I'm gonna throw you to explain what this film is about because I frankly coming out of it have no fucking clue

1:46.6

other than a scrapbook for

1:49.9

Quarron like Alphonso Quar on this is not a movie for me in in really anyway I like well told dramatic

2:01.6

stories well plotted movies intricate moving parts this movie has

2:06.2

none of that this is in my opinion like I said a scrapbook for a

2:11.1

fons of quiron and also just an art film. I mean that's this is a

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