Roma / Netflix, Participant Media presenta ; filmo produktita de Esparanto-Filmoj ; escrita y dirigida por Alfonso Cuarón ; producida por Gabriela Rodríguez, Alfonso Cuarón, Nicolás Celis.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
  • Spanish
  • Central American Indian languages
Εdition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Published/​Created
  • [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
  • ©2018
Description
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet

Details

Subject(s)
Film director
Screenwriter
Editor of moving image work
Director of photography
Actor
Presenter
Production company
Publisher
Library of Congress genre(s)
Series
Criterion collection ; 1014. [More in this series]
Summary note
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.
Notes
  • Originally released in 2018.
  • Wide screen (2.39:1).
  • Special features: 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 cast and crew; new documentaries about the film's sound and postproduction process; new documentary about the film's ambitious theatrical campaign and social impact in Mexico; trailers; Plus: essays by novelist Valeria Luiselli and historian Enrique Krauze.
Creation/​Production credits
Editors, Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough ; director of photography, Alfonso Cuarón.
Target audience
MPAA rating: R; for graphic nudity, some disturbing images, and language.
System details
DVD; 5.1 surround; wide screen (2.39:1), all regions.
Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Daniela Demesa, Marco Graf.
Language note
Spanish and Mixtec dialogue; English or French subtitles, Spanish SDH; Spanish descriptive audio.
ISBN
  • 9781681436579
  • 1681436574
Publisher no.
  • CC3085D-1
  • CC3085D-2
OCLC
1131699568
Universal Product Code
  • 715515237413
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