Roma
Academy Award × 3
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
What critics thought
Roma arrived to near-universal critical rapture, with reviewers treating it as an instant masterpiece — a deeply personal, visually commanding portrait of domestic life in 1970s Mexico City. The main point of friction came not from professional critics but from philosopher Slavoj Žižek, who argued that admiring audiences were misreading the film, celebrating its housekeeper protagonist Cleo for a kind of grace rather than recognizing the moral constraints she needs to escape. The gap between the critics' overwhelming embrace and that more skeptical intellectual reading is worth keeping in mind.
“Roma is thrilling, engrossing, moving—and just entirely amazing, an adjectival pileup of wonder. He has reached back into his own childhood to create an intensely personal story.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“an expansive, emotional portrait of life buffeted by violent forces, and a masterpiece”
Manohla Dargis·The New York Times
Genres
Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorAlfonso Cuarón
StarringYalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Marco Graf
Roma
Academy Award × 3
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
What critics thought
Roma arrived to near-universal critical rapture, with reviewers treating it as an instant masterpiece — a deeply personal, visually commanding portrait of domestic life in 1970s Mexico City. The main point of friction came not from professional critics but from philosopher Slavoj Žižek, who argued that admiring audiences were misreading the film, celebrating its housekeeper protagonist Cleo for a kind of grace rather than recognizing the moral constraints she needs to escape. The gap between the critics' overwhelming embrace and that more skeptical intellectual reading is worth keeping in mind.
“Roma is thrilling, engrossing, moving—and just entirely amazing, an adjectival pileup of wonder. He has reached back into his own childhood to create an intensely personal story.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“an expansive, emotional portrait of life buffeted by violent forces, and a masterpiece”
Manohla Dargis·The New York Times
Genres
Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorAlfonso Cuarón
StarringYalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Marco Graf