
- Dec 28, 2018
Film Review: Roma (2018)
Director Alfonso Cuarón returns to his indie roots since 2001’s indelible Y Tu Mamá También with the sublime Roma. Filmed in black-and-white and set in 1970s Mexico, Roma follows the life of a young maid named Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) as she serves the boisterous brood of a doctor and his unappreciated wife and navigates an unexpected pregnancy while civic unrest in the city reaches a breaking point. Themes of womanhood and motherhood are presented unflinchingly and heartrendi