ALFONSO CUARÓN: A RETROSPECTIVE
Q&A with Dierdra Reber, Associate Professor of Latin American Culture at the University of Kentucky
"A film that has much to recommend it, not least the proof it offers, as if any more were needed, that Alfonso Cuarón is one of the most visually inspired directors working today." —New Statesman
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
ABOUT DIERDRA REBER
Dierdra Reber is Associate Professor of Latin American Culture in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky. Reber is author of Coming to Our Senses: Affect and an Order of Things (Columbia University Press, 2016) and is working on a critical study of Alfonso Cuarón's full filmography, under contract with the University of Illinois Press Contemporary Film Directors Series, and a study in progress of affect, race, and Western empire. Reber's work situates film and media, and other narrative genres from literature to advertising, in the context of affect studies and broader Western philosophy over the 600-year period that comprises Western (neo)imperialism from the 1400s to the present.