ROMA (2018)

I have to agree. I saw this recently and while there's a lot of artistry to it, I wouldn't have guessed this was an Oscar favorite. Beautifully shot, with some absurdly powerful moments, but it's all pretty few and far between.

I can appreciate the minimalist slow cinema approach, but I don't know if it entirely worked here. Certainly not a bad film, it's too well-made even just technically, but my expectations were a good deal higher.

Many of the Oscar darlings of 2015-2022, to me anyways, were celebrated because they were politically fashionable. Maybe the Academy always went for that kind of decision making but it was something else to see it with my own eyes.

I did like bits in Roma but it was indeed massively overrated. Somebody had said around that time "it's a great art film if you haven't seen any art film." and that describes it possibly the best.

I've provisionally got it at number 8 in my revised all time list lol.
It swept me away!