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ROMA With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), in a revolutionary screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father. Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals. Written, directed, shot, and coedited by Cuaron, Roma is a labour of love with few parallels in the history of cinema, deploying monumental black and white cinematography, an immersive soundtrack and a mixture of professional and nonprofessional performances to shape its author’s memories into a world of enveloping texture, and to pay tribute to the woman who nurtured him.
DIRECTOR APPROVED TWO DVD SPECIAL EDITION 4K DIGITAL MASTER SUPERVISED BY DIRECTOR ALFONSO CUARON ROAD TO ROMA – A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE MAKING OF THE FILM, FEATURING BEHIND-THE-SCENES FOOTAGE AND AN INTERVIEW WITH CUARON. SNAPSHOTS FROM THE SET. A NEW DOCUMENTARY FEATURING ACTORS YALITZA APARICIO AND MARINA DE TAVIRA, PRODUCERS GABRIELA RODRIGUEZ AND NICOLAS CELIS, PRODUCTION DESIGNER EUGENIO CABALLERO, CASTIND DIRECTOR LUIS ROSALES, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAVID LINDE, AND OTHERS. NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE FILM’S SOUND AND POSTPRODUCTION PROCESSES, FEATURING CUARON SERGIO DIAZ, SKIP LIEVSAY, AND CRAIG HANIGHAN, FROM THE [PSTPRODUCTION SOUND TEAM, EDITOR ADAM GOUGH, POSTPRODUCTION SUPERVISOR CARLLOS MORALES. AND FINISHING ARTIST STEVEN J SCOTT. NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE FILM’S AMBITIOUS THEATRICAL CAMPAIGN AND SOCIAL IMPACT IN MEXICO, FEATURING CELIS AND RODRIGUEZ. TRAILERS ALTERNATE FRENCH SUBTITLES AND SPANISH. PLUS ESSAYS BY NOVELIST VALERIA LUISELLI AND HISTORIAN ENRIQUE KRAUZE. ROMA IS THE FIRST FILM FROM NETFLIX TO BE RELEASED ON CRITERION.
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