Roma

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Roma

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2018

2h 15m

Drama

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Cleo is one of two domestic workers who help Antonio and Sofía take care of their four children in 1970s Mexico City. Complications soon arise when Antonio suddenly runs away with his mistress and Cleo finds out that she's pregnant. When Sofía decides to take the kids on vacation, she invites Cleo for a much-needed getaway to clear her mind and bond with the family.

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Critics Consensus

Roma finds writer-director Alfonso Cuarón in complete, enthralling command of his visual craft - and telling the most powerfully personal story of his career.

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Nell Minow

AWFJ.org

10/26/2021

Roma will be studied for years as a landmark in cinematic storytelling, made even more meaningful because it pays tribute to a character who is usually in the background.

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Kathleen Sachs

Chicago Reader

03/24/2020

In Cuarón's films, cinema conjures up its own world, and this one provides the chance to explore it with him more intimately than ever before.

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Karen Han

Polygon

02/26/2019

Aparicio, in her acting debut, is remarkable.

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Julian Singleton

Cinapse

Jul 12

Despite having lived them in some fashion once before, Cuarón feels like he’s exploring these moments as earnestly as his audience — and in doing so unearths how uniting those moments of chaotic change can be.

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JD Duran

InSession Film

08/07/2024

The cinematography, sound design, and editing is as elegant as you’d expect from Cuarón. Not enough good things can be said about Yalitza Aparicio and her performance too, a stunning performance for a non-professional.

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Calum Cooper

Source (Scotland)

07/14/2024

5/5

Roma is a riveting, gut-wrenching, and utterly absorbing experience that completely floored me.

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Ellie S

@Ellie196 1d

Loved the historical aspects and editing, bored at times but definitely worth the watch. The emotion inside was great and I think it being black and white definitely played a part in that.

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火BRTO T

@strp27 Mar 4

Roma stands out for its breathtaking black and white cinematography. However the story moves slowly and may not appeal to everyone. Despite that it offers strong emotional depth. Furthermore it turns everyday moments into powerful scenes I rate it definitely as FRESH

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Cecilia T

@CBCB2000 Feb 16

unforgettable, historical, moving.

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retro b

@retrobite Jan 31

Cuarón thinks he has written an elegy for a Mexico that crumbled in our hands, but the reality is that he has written emotional pornography for the upper-middle class with his social-class documentary, featuring a black-and-white beauty that almost justifies Cleo’s exploitation in her object-like relationship with her 'patroncitos' (little masters). The only thing that could have saved it was if he had given us the dialectics of that Halconazo, but what we got instead was a gaze from the rooftop of Cuarón’s privilege. It is simply trash, bourgeois nostalgia that ends with a hug on the beach for lack of being able to put on chains.

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Alexsander F

@Aelxs Jan 31

A visceral portrait of human tragedy, rendered through a deeply sensitive lens. / Retrato visceral da tragédia humana, elaborado por uma ótica profundamente sensível.

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Patrick S

@PatrickStruik Jan 6

Heartbreaking beautiful movie.

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Synopsis

Cleo is one of two domestic workers who help Antonio and Sofía take care of their four children in 1970s Mexico City. Complications soon arise when Antonio suddenly runs away with his mistress and Cleo finds out that she's pregnant. When Sofía decides to take the kids on vacation, she invites Cleo for a much-needed getaway to clear her mind and bond with the family.

Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Producer: Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodriguez, Nicolás Celis
Screenwriter: Alfonso Cuarón
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Participant Media, Esperanto Filmoj
Rating: R (Language|Graphic Nudity|Some Disturbing Images)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 21, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 15, 2018
Runtime: 2h 15m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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