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But the Oscar-winning director says he wants
both to be experienced on the big screen, even if he made
"Roma", which premiered in Venice on Thursday, for streaming
service Netflix.
"We know perfectly well that this kind of a film, a film in
Spanish, black and white and in the Mixtec language, a drama and
not a genre film, it is very difficult for these films to find
the spaces where they can get big exposure," Cuaron said,
meaning traditional Hollywood studios were unlikely to back that
type of movie, even one by an A-list director.
While it has none of the breathtaking science-fiction shots that
made "Gravity" a must-see-at-the-cinema movie, "Roma" is
achingly beautiful, shot in the crisp, large-format digital 65mm
format, with long, cinematic tracking shots of a re-created 1970
Mexico City and dramatic land and sea-scapes.
"Obviously, the ideal situation would be a theater on a big
screen," Cuaron said.
"(But) the important thing is that the film has an impact ...
This film exists and therefore I am very grateful to Netflix
because they have allowed me to work in this way."
"Roma" will have a theatrical release, but the fact that it will
stream online at the same time made it ineligible to compete at
the even more prestigious Cannes Film Festival in May due to
France's insistence on a long time lag before movies are
available for home viewing.
Based on his own childhood, the film focuses on the women in
Cuaron's life then: his comfortably middle-class mother and the
family's two maids, in a country confronted by vast inequalities
and violent unrest.
It is one of 21 films competing for the Golden Lion at the
Venice Film Festival, which runs from Aug. 29 to Sept 8.
(Additional reporting by Hanna Rantala; writing by Robin
Pomeroy; editing by Andrew Heavens, Larry King)
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