ROMA (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Yalitza Aparicio (film debut), Marina de Tavira (The Zone), Fernando Grediaga (film debut), Jorge Antonio Guerrero (film debut), Marco Graf (film debut), Daniela Demesa (film debut), Carlos Peralta (film debut), Nancy García (film debut), Diego Di Cort (film debut), Verónica García (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity), director, writer, producer, cinematographer, editor; Nicolás Celis (Hilda) and Gabriela Rodriguez (film debut), producers; Adam Gough (Bees Make Honey), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In early 1970s Mexico City, Cleo (Aparicio) works as a live-in housekeeper for a middle-class family, who each go through a series of trials and tribulations over the course of a year…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Alfonso Cuarón returns with this fiercely personal passion project that is said to be unmissable in any format, either on the big screen or on any Netflix account you can find.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 2018 (EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX)

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