Roma
Film
Review by Kam Williams
Cleo
Gutierrez (Yalitza Aparicio) is one of two live-in maids maintaining
the home of Antonio (Fernando Grediaga) and Sofia (Marina de Tavira),
couple in crisis with four young children. They can afford the help,
which includes a chauffeur, because he's a prominent physician. But
they also need the staff, since Antonio spends so much time
supposedly attending “conferences in Canada.”
The
delinquent dad explains his absence to the kids as being away on
business. However his long-suffering wife suspects that he's just up
to monkey business with his mistress, which explains why she's not
above begging him to cancel a trip. Luckily, Sofia has a shoulder to
cry on in her mother, Teresa (Veronica Garcia), who lives with them,
too.
Meanwhile,
Cleo and her fellow nanny, Adela (Nancy Garcia), dutifully assume the
bulk of the child-rearing and housekeeping duties. Both of these
servants hail from humble roots, being uneducated peasants of
Mixteco, native Mexican heritage.
Yet,
like typical young women, they do dream of someday escaping their
lowly station to start families of their own. And each has a romantic
interest. Cleo's is Fermin (Jorge Antonio Guerrero), a cousin of
Adela's boyfriend, Ramon (Jose Manuel Guerrero Mendoza).
The
plot thickens the evening the two couples go on a double date to a
movie theater. Against her better judgment, Cleo leaves early with
Fermin who has reserved a motel room where they share an evening of
passionate, unprotected sex.
She
ends up pregnant, and a moment of truth arrives when her baby-daddy
reacts badly to the news that he's about to become a father. So, now
she has to worry whether she'll be fired when she tells Sofia that
she's knocked up.
Thus
unfolds Roma, a semi-autobiographical, dysfunctional family drama
written and directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Set in Mexico City in the
Seventies, this impressionistic saga shot in black & white more
than makes up in atmosphere what it might lack in meaningful
dialogue.
Kudos
to Cuaron for crafting such a visually-captivating, surreal memoir of
his troubled coming of age!
Excellent
(4 stars)
Rated
R
for profanity, disturbing images and graphic nudity
In
Spanish and Mixtec with subtitles.
Running
time: 135 minutes
Production
Companies: Esperanto Filmoj / Participant Media
Distributor:
Netflix
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