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Title:
Roma / Netflix presenta ; Participant Media presenta ; filmo produktita de Esparanto-Filmoj ; escrita y dirigida por Alfonso Cuarón ; productores ejecutivos, Jeff Skoll, David Linde, Jonathan King ; producida por Gabriela Rodríguez, Alfonso Cuarón, Nicolás Celis.
Author:
Cuarón, Alfonso, film director, screenwriter, film producer, editor of moving image work, director of photography.

Rodríguez, Gabriela (Film producer), film producer.

Celis, Nicolás, film producer.

Aparicio, Yalitza, 1993- actor.

Tavira, Marina de, actor.

Cortina Autrey, Diego, actor.

Peralta, Carlos (Actor), actor.

Demesa, Daniela, actor.

Graf, Marco, actor.

García, Nancy (García García), actor.

García, Verónica (Actress), actor.

Cortés, Andy, actor.

Grediaga, Fernando, actor.

Gough, Adam, 1982- editor of moving image work.

Fainchtein, Lynn, musical director.

Krauze, Enrique, writer of supplementary textual content.

Luiselli, Valeria, 1983- writer of supplementary textual content.

Netflix (Firm), presenter.

Participant Media, presenter.

Esperanto Films (Firm), production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]

©2020
Call Number:
PN1997.2 .R669 2020
Abstract:
"In Mexico City's upscale Colonia Roma district, a quiet but swift change is on its way. Pivoting around Dr Antonio's middle-bourgeoisie family, the lives of two women--the devoted live-in maid and housekeeper of Mixteco heritage, Cleo, and her academic employer, Sofía--become inextricably intertwined, as a seemingly ordinary business trip to Quebec paves the way for a bitter heartbreak. Over a span of one long year--from the quadrennial 1970s World Cup to the blood-drenched Corpus Christi Massacre--the unforeseen and sometimes unbearable complications of love; a new life amid death, and an almost stubborn will to find good in evil, pepper Sofía and Cleo's daily routines. And before irrevocable transformations and startling revelations, life always finds a way."--IMDb.
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.

Director-approved two-DVD special edition; DVD edition.
ISBN:
9781681436579
Series:
The Criterion collection ; 1014

Criterion collection ; 1014.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 pages : 1 illustration ; 19 x 72 cm folded to 19 x 12 cm)
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 2018.

"First printing 2020"--Container.

Wide screen (2.39:1).

Accompanying folded sheet with essays "The layers of 'Roma'" by historian Enrique Krauze and "'Roma,' or The art of making ruins" by novelist Valeria Luiselli, notes on the digital film master, and cast and crew credits inserted in container.

"With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuarón 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 (Yalitza Aparicio, in a revelatory screen debut), 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. Written, directed, shot, and coedited by Cuarón, Roma is a labor of love with few parallels in the history of cinema, deploying monumental black-and-white cinematography, an immersive soundtrack, and a mitxture of professional and nonprofessional performances to shape its author's memories into a world of enveloping texture, and to pay tribute to the woman who nurtured him"--Container.

Special features: 4K digital master, supervised by director Alfonso Cuarón; "Road to Roma (Camina a Roma)" a new documentary about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and an interview with Cuarón (72 min. : sound, color and black and white; with optional English subtitles); Snapshots From the Set, a new documentary featuring actors Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira, producers Gabriela Rodríguez and Nicolás Celis, production designer Eugenio Caballero, casting director Luis Rosales, executive producer David Linde, and others (32 min. : sound, color and black and white; optional English subtitles); New documentaries about the film's sound and postproduction processes, featuring Cuarón, postproduction sound team members Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan, editor Adam Gough, postproduction cupervisor Carlos Morales and finishing artist Steven J. Scott; New documentary about the film's ambitious theatrical campaign and social impact in Mexico, featuring Celis and Rodríguez; Trailers; Alternate French subtitles and Spanish SDH; Essays by novelist Valeria Luiselli and historian Enrique Krauze on folded sheet inserted into container.
Added Title:
Camina a Roma.

Snapshots From the Set.
Contents:
Disc one. [Feature film] -- Disc two. [Special features].
Uniform Title:
Roma (Motion picture : 2018)
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: R; for graphic nudity, some disturbing images, and language.
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