Alfonso Cuarón introduced his Apple TV+ restricted sequence “Disclaimer” to the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition on Monday, September 9. The five-time Oscar winner writes, directs, and government produces the buzzy psychological thriller sequence based mostly on Renée Knight’s bestselling 2015 novel. Cate Blanchett, Sacha Baron Cohen, Lesley Manville, Kevin Kline, Louis Partridge, Leila George, and Kodi Smit-McPhee star.
In Ben Travers’ evaluation for the sequence, he writes that it’s Cuarón’s “most provocative project since ‘Y tu mamá también.’” Within the opening scene within the very first episode, Partridge is having wild, exuberant intercourse on a practice as he travels to Italy. “Well, it is interesting because everything goes in waves,” Cuarón advised IndieWire on how intercourse on display screen has modified within the final 20 years.
“Also, it’s interesting that every time that there is a [time] period in which the sex is portrayed on screens, particularly if it is portrayed in a frank way, there’s always the discussion of ‘if we’re ready.’ But then I read interviews in the sixties and they were asking those questions,” he continued. “So it’s like, I think that speaks more about how our moral approaches look in societies more than about films themselves.”
The sequence marks the director’s first foray into tv. “In terms of this approach of motion pictures, it’s been known as film. I don’t know how to direct TV. Probably at this stage of my life it’s too late to learn how to direct TV,” he mentioned in Venice. “We approached this whole thing as a film. There was never a conversation where we were doing something different.”
On the TIFF premiere, Cuarón says that “the thing about most of mainstream TV is that it is not really a director’s medium.”
“I mean, there are cases,” Cuarón mentioned. “[There] are amazing examples of ‘Twin Peaks,’ David Lynch, you know that in reality, I would consider that a film and I think he approached it like the way that he approaches his films. [It] is just like he approached it in a long format in of length and then he split it in two different parts. I think that that’s one that comes to my mind. There was also, of course, ‘Fanny and Alexander,’ which was originally for television and then decided to go theatrical.”
“Disclaimer” premieres October 11 on Apple TV+. Try the teaser right here.