Posted AT 3:16 AM EDT on 18/12/06
An optimist with a bleak side
In each of his last three films, Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron has shown an uncanny knack for bringing fresh and unconventional twists to some of cinema's most conventional genres.
His 2001 sleeper hit Y tu mama tambien was a road movie with sexual verve built around a ménage à trois. His subsequent children's movie, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was a far darker and more intense instalment than the previous two in the J.K. Rowling franchise.
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