When Alfonso Cuarón won best director and picture in 2019 with his brilliant, heartbreaking black-and-white “Roma,” its two-plus-hour length and panoramic scope hinted that the movie could have easily been expanded into a series. His first project since that Spanish-language film is a seven-part slowburn thriller for Apple TV+. “Disclaimer” shares elements with that film: the struggle at the shore to save a son from drowning, the marital tensions percolating beneath the surface, and the power of memory to distort and reveal.
Because of this, the five-time Oscar winner seems like a natural fit to create a longer narrative with more time to ebb and flow, backed by the deeper pockets of Apple TV+.