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Jan 13, 2019 · ‘Roma’ is a semi-biographical account of Cuaron’s childhood in a middle-class, white family in Mexico. It revolves around the central figure of Cleo, the selfless, devoted “manita” in a posh-house, based on Libo, Cuaron’s real-life nanny. The title “Roma” refers to the Colonia Roma, a neighborhood in Mexico City.
Dec 14, 2018 · Roma depicts Mexico at a moment when the tensions created by this system had nearly reached a breaking point. Violence in the countryside had been a mainstay of the regime for years. One of the ...
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Dec 20, 2018 · The new movie Roma, in theaters and streaming on Netflix, is based on the childhood of director Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men).The movie is an intensely personal saga, following ...
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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 ...
Dec 14, 2018 · A key plot in Roma is the child of Fermín and Cleo. Before the young couple get in bed together in a hotel room, he demonstrates his martial arts skills and explains to her that martial arts saved his life. He grew up in slums fostered by his aunt, and had become involved in criminal activity, drinking and doing drugs.
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Feb 15, 2019 · On October 2 of that year, thousands of student protesters gathered for a rally in Mexico City's Three Cultures Square, and government troops arrived to arrest the protest leaders. Responding to snipers' shots from above, the soldiers opened fire on thousands of unarmed protesters.
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Jan 30, 2019 · “Roma’s” indigenous domestic-worker protagonist Cleo, played by newcomer Yalitza Aparicio, is based on the real-life woman Cuarón calls only Libo. Advertisement
