ROMA (2018) Video Reviews & Interviews
Cuarón, inspired by the women from his childhood, delivers an artful ode to the matriarchy that shaped his world.
ROMA chronicles a turbulent year in the lives of a middle-class family in
1970s Mexico City. Cuarón, inspired by the women from his childhood, delivers
an artful ode to the matriarchy that shaped his world.
A vivid portrayal of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political
turmoil, ROMA follows a young domestic worker Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) from
Mixteco heritage descent and her co-worker Adela (Nancy García), also Mixteca,
who work for a small family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma. Mother of
four, Sofia (Marina de Tavira), copes with the extended absence of her husband,
Cleo faces her own devastating news that threatens to distract her from caring
for Sofia’s children, whom she loves as her own. While trying to construct a
new sense of love and solidarity in a context of a social hierarchy where class
and race are perversely intertwined, Cleo and Sofia quietly wrestle with
changes infiltrating the family home in a country facing confrontation between
a government-backed militia and student demonstrators. Filmed in luminous black
and white, ROMA is an intimate, gut-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming
portrait of the ways, small and large, one family maintains its balance in a
time of personal, social and political strife.
TRAILER
Release date:
December 14, 2018
Studio:
Participant Media, Netflix
Director:
Alfonso Cuaron
MPAA Rating:
N/A
Screenwriter:
Alfonso Cuaron
Starring:
Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey,
Carlos Peralta, Nancy García García
Genre:
drama
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