“There are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform us as individuals,” wrote Alfonso Cuarón on a Tweet on Wednesday. With it, came our first look at his new film Roma, which is set to debut at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals this autumn. Watch the Roma teaser trailer below.
Roma teaser trailer delivered with stunning simplicity
Roma is said to be a deeply personal project for the filmmaker, whose back-catalogue includes the likes of Children of Men and the award-winning Gravity. Roma chronicles a turbulent year in the lives of a middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City. Cuarón, inspired by the women from his childhood, delivers an artful ode to the matriarchy that shaped his world.
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A vivid portrayal of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil, Roma follows a young domestic worker Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) from Mixteco heritage descent and her co-worker Adela (Nancy García García), also Mixteca, who work for a small family in the middle-class neighbourhood of Roma. Mother of four, Sofia (Marina de Tavira), copes with the extended absence of her husband, Cleo faces her own devastating news that threatens to distract her from caring for Sofia’s children, whom she loves as her own. While trying to construct a new sense of love and solidarity in a context of a social hierarchy where class and race are perversely intertwined, Cleo and Sofia quietly wrestle with changes infiltrating the family home in a country facing confrontation between a government-backed militia and student demonstrators.
There are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform us as individuals. pic.twitter.com/TOBHcvGb7T
— Alfonso Cuaron (@alfonsocuaron) July 25, 2018
Roma rolls out on streaming service Netflix later in the year after its festival appearances. Take a look at the first ‘teaser trailer’ above.
