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Roma / director, Alfonso Cuarón

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC3084BD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: Spanish Original language: Spanish Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publisher: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]Edition: Criterion collectionDescription: 1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681436562
  • 1681436566
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Cast: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina De Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta.Summary: 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, 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Hispanic Heritage Month | FPL New Year's Movie Marathon Audiovisual profile: Click to open in new window
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Blu-ray Adult Blu-ray Dr. James Carlson Library DVD WORLD Roma Available 33111009881588
Adult Blu-ray Adult Blu-ray Main Library DVD WORLD Roma Available 33111009881596
Adult Blu-ray Adult Blu-ray Northport Library DVD WORLD Roma Available 33111009881570
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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, 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.

Yalitza Aparicio, Marina De Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta.

Blu-ray, Dolby Atmos/5.1 surround; wide screen (2.39:1); requires Blu-ray player.

Spanish dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles.

Rating: R; for graphic nudity, some disturbing images, and language.

Wide screen (2.39:1).

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, 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.

Special features: Road to "Roma", a new documentary; snapshots from the set; new documentary about the film's sound and post production process; new documentary about the film's ambitious theatrical campaign and social impact in Mexico; Nothing to take, a new video essay; trailers; plus, essays.

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