Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Roma (2018) is an Academy Award winning Mexican drama that portrays domestic life in 1970s Mexico City through the eyes of a live-in housekeeper. The film won three Oscars, including Best Director, and is noted for its autobiographical roots and meticulous visual style. Blending personal memory with social context, it offers an intimate portrait of family, class, and quiet resilience.

Criterion Collection

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 mixture of professional and nonprofessional performances to shape its authors memories into a world of enveloping texture, and to pay tribute to the woman who nurtured him.

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A year in the life of a upper-middle-class familys maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

Director-Approved Two-DVD Special Edition Features

4K digital master, supervised by director Alfonso Cuarón

Road to Roma, a new documentary about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and an interview with Cuarón

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, casti