blend of emotion, social commentary and humour. His first film was the 1991 Mexican AIDS comedy, Love in the Time of Expectations in 1998.
the best Harry Potter movie.
Now he has made his most grown-up film, the $US80 million ($108 million) Children of Men. An adaptation of P. D.
James's sci-fi novel, it portrays a bleak futuristic England where smoke dope, although he shares it with Clive Owen.
Isn't it ironic that he needed so much money? Cuaron sniggers.
"To make it look cheap? I know, it's one of those things. This kindergarten in visual effects.
I'm very proud to say this probably has as many visual effects as Harry Potter."
before Harry Potter came along. He saw James's book as "an amazing "I don't really understand what democracy is any more.
Is it like in America with Burger King and McDonald's, Democrats and Republicans, or Labour and the Tories? You have two of the same suit. You have Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Light as your choices.
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Politicians, he says, are the problem. He quotes Jarvis Cocker's song, Running the World, from the film's soundtrack.
shit floats and goes to the top.
And then there's the beautiful chorus, 'Let's be perfectly clear, boys and girls, c---s are still running the world.' "
The only problem is, when Cuaron says this, he can't pronounce the c-word clearly. So he blurts it out again.
And again. In this posh ballroom at the Venice Festival, it is a little surreal.
He stops and realises what he has done.
"Oh, that's priceless," Cuaron says, cackling.
totalitarian control, Cuaron wanted to tell a hopeful story. It the human race.
Owen had a strong bond with his Mexican director. He came up with a lot of the dialogue, as did a straggly haired Caine, who provides a brief refuge for the runaways.
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