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Roma review: Alfonso Cuarón returns to Venice – and Mexico – for a heart-rending triumph

The Oscar-winning director has made his best film yet with this exquisite study of class and domestic crisis in 70s Mexico City

The Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón, whose breakthrough movie Y Tu Mamá También was such a smash in Venice in 2001, and whose outer-space disaster film Gravity did the same thing in 2013, now returns to his native language in complete triumph.

Roma is his best film so far: a thrilling, engrossing and moving picture with a richly personal story to tell, beautifully and dynamically shot in pellucid black and white. It is the tale of Cleo (played by Yalitza Aparicio), a young woman of Mixteco heritage working as a live-in maid for a beleaguered upper-middle class family in Mexico City.

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