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Writer-director Alfonso Cuaron's Mexican masterpiece Roma (2018) is a magnificent movie, brilliantly staged, and gloriously realised in gorgeous black and white scope images, with a warm and winning saga, highlighted by a couple of heart-stopping moments. Cuaron is also his own cinematographer.

It is a director's film, but real acting is required too, and the two main roles are female, and Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira are superb as the maid Cleo and the house mother Sofia, both facing difficult, life-changing personal problems, with men, as it happens.

Cuaron’s story chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of a comfortable middle-class family in Mexico City in the early Seventies, a year and a life that he conjures up lavishly and magically. It is heartfelt, personal cinema, and real and relevant feeling, but the scale of some of the reconstructions is breathtaking.

Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Cast: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey
Country: USA, Mexico
Genre: Drama

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 02:14:58 | 46.2 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Spanish, Spanish Descriptive audio
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Extras:

• Road to "Roma" - this documentary film chronicles the production of Roma while using a wide variety of raw footage showing Alfonso Cuaron and cast and crew members at work. Also, the director discusses in great detail the evolution of the project, from script to screen. The documentary was produced by filmmakers Andres Clariond Rangel, Gabriel Nuncio, and Alejandro Duran. With English subtitles where necessary. (73 min, 1080p).

• Snapshots from the Set - this documentary also uses raw footage from the production of Roma as well as various clips from interviews with cast members, producers Gabriela Rodriguez and Nicolas Celis, production designer Eugenio Caballero, and executive producer David Linde, amongst others. With English subtitles where necessary. (32 min, 1080p).

• The Postproduction Process -

-- The Look of Roma - in this program, Alfonso Cuaron, postproduction supervisor Carlos Morales, editor Adam Gough, and finishing artist Steven J. Scott discuss the visual appearance of Roma and specifically some of the period details that define it. In English, not subtitled. (21 min, 1080p).

-- The Sound of Roma - in this program, Alfonso Cuaron, audio specialists Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan, and Sergio Diaz, and editor Adam Gough discuss the creation of the original soundtrack for Roma. With English subtitles where necessary. (28 min, 1080p).

• "Roma" Brings Us Together: The Theatrical Tour in Mexico - for Alfonso Cuaron, ensuring that Roma would be shown throughout Mexico was of paramount importance. That meant updating movie theaters around the country so that the film could be seen and heard as it was meant to be. For viewers outside urban centers, his took the film to them. In this 2019 program, producers Gabriela Rodriguez and Nicolas Celis discuss the scope of their efforts and the many ways the film has had a lasting cultural impact. In English, not subtitled. (19 min, 1080p).

• Trailer - an original trailer for Roma. With English text. (2 min, 1080p).

• Teaser - an original teaser trailer for Roma. With English text. (2 min, 1080p).