Roma (2018 film)

Roma
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlfonso Cuarón
Written byAlfonso Cuarón
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAlfonso Cuarón
Edited by
  • Alfonso Cuarón
  • Adam Gough
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Espectáculos Fílmicos El Coyúl (Mexico)[5]
  • Netflix (Worldwide)[6]
Release dates
  • 30 August 2018 (2018-08-30) (Venice)[7]
  • 21 November 2018 (2018-11-21) (Mexico and United States)[8]
  • 14 December 2018 (2018-12-14) (Netflix)
Running time
135 minutes
Countries
  • Mexico
  • United States[9]
Languages
Budget$15 million[11][8]
Box office$5.1 million[12][8][13]

Roma is a 2018 drama film written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also produced, shot, and co-edited it. Set in 1970 and 1971, Roma follows the life of a live-in indigenous (Mixteco) housekeeper of an upper-middle-class Mexican family.[14][15] It is a semi-autobiographical take on Cuarón's upbringing in Mexico City's Colonia Roma neighborhood. The film stars Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira.[16][17] It is an international co-production between Mexico and the United States.[18]

Roma premiered on 30 August 2018 at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. It began a limited theatrical run in the United States on 21 November 2018, before streaming on Netflix in the U.S. and other territories starting on 14 December 2018.[8][19][20] The film received universal critical acclaim, with particular praise for Cuarón's screenplay, direction and cinematography, as well as Aparicio's and de Tavira's performances. The film is considered one of the best of 2018 and appears on many critics' "top ten" lists of the year.

Roma received a number of accolades, with ten nominations at the 91st Academy Awards, among them Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Aparicio) and Best Supporting Actress (de Tavira). It became the first Mexican entry to win Best Foreign Language Film, and also won for Best Cinematography and Best Director, becoming the first foreign-language film to win in the last category. This was also the first time a director won Best Cinematography for their own film. It was tied with The Favourite as the most-nominated film of the show, and with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) for the most Academy Award nominations for a non-English-language film. It also won Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, Best Picture and Best Director at the 24th Critics' Choice Awards, and Best Film, Best Film Not in the English Language, Best Direction and Best Cinematography at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards.

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  16. ^ Dargis, Manohla (13 December 2018). "'Roma' Review: Alfonso Cuarón's Masterpiece of Memory". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2018. [Roma] centers on a young Indigenous woman who works as a maid for a middle-class white family that's falling apart.
  17. ^ Solórzano, Fernanda (2 December 2018). "Entrevista a Alfonso Cuarón "Con Roma quería honrar el tiempo y el espacio; que los lugares dictaran lo que iba a pasar"". Letras Libres (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 January 2019. ... Roma narra la vida de una familia de clase media.
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