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Gravity
By Larry Hertz
One of the most critically acclaimed movies of 2013 was born in a London hotel room five years ago when Jonás Cuarón ’05 listened to his father, writer and director Alfonso Cuarón, lament the state of the industry.
The Cuaróns were planning to make a small, independent film, but their financing fell through as they were starting to assemble a cast.
“This was right after the recession hit, and funding for a lot of projects dried up,” Jonás recalls.
“That’s when Dad said, ‘The heck with it, let’s make a big film.’”
The rambling, all-night discussion that followed soon morphed into a plan to make a movie about two astronauts marooned in space hundreds of miles above the earth.
Since its release last fall, Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, has been universally lauded by critics and has grossed more than a quarter of a billion dollars. The film went on t