Reg. Cuaron was awarded the Golden Lion in Venice.
Something with the annotation for the film is not that: either not the whole film was shown, or the annotation was written by a person who did not see the film.
Good picture. Simple and complex. Ordinary people with their own complicated problems. But as told.. .
Everything is calm, even in periods of great tension: betrayal, the birth of a dead child, the rescue of drowning children ... And in between, the usual domestic work and the interests of domestic workers from an Indian village in a major city are shown.
Despite difficulties and great troubles, members of the middle-class family, including the servants, love each other and especially children, come to each other’s aid without lectures and selflessly.
I personally lacked color in the picture: such luxurious landscapes remained in black and white “performance”. In my opinion, this is the only drawback.
