‘Disclaimer’ Review: Cate Blanchett Is Riveting In Alfonso Cuarón’s Poetic & Prosaic Limited Series – Venice Film Festival
deadline.comAlfonso Cuarón‘s Apple TV+ limited series Disclaimer is gut-wrenching, beautiful and solidly conventional. Based on the bestselling 2015 novel of the same name by Renée Knight, the seven-episode show written and directed by the two-time Oscar winner opens with a long shot of teenage sex on a European train and a warning.
A Christiane Amanpour-delivered warning to “beware of narrative and form” at a fictional Royal Television Society award ceremony for acclaimed documentarian Catherine Ravenscroft, played by Cate Blanchett.
Intentionally full of the contradictions of its dark cupboard of secrets and lies, the dual opening of Disclaimer gives away all that is to follow, both with skill and a distinct lack of subtlety.
In that sense, with a seemingly perfect life shattered, betrayal, human frailty, grief and a mysterious novel that cuts too close to home, the series is intentionally aware of what it is. RELATED: ‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie Hits The High Notes As Doomed Diva Maria Callas In Pablo Larraín’s Curiously Bloodless Biopic – Venice Film Festival An unusual step into the world of the small screen by the Roma and Gravity filmmaker, Cuarón’s TV series both stays true to Knight’s book and rarely strays from rules of the thriller form that widely populate streamers and premium cable these days.
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