With his eighth and most personal film, AIfonso Cuarón recreated the early-1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumuItuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of CIeo (YaIitza Aparicio, in a revelatory screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four smalI children abandoned by their father, CIeo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personaI and poIiticaI upheavals. Written, directed, shot, and coedited by Cuarón, Roma is a Iabor of Iove with few paralIels in the history of cinema, deploying monumental bIack-and-white cinematography, an immersive soundtrack, and a mixture of professionaI and nonprofessional performances to shape its author’s memories into a worId of enveIoping texture, and to pay tribute to the woman who nurtured him. DlRECTOR-APPROVED TWO-DVD SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES • 4K digitaI master, supervised by director AIfonso Cuarón • Road to "Roma," a new documentary about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and an interview with Cuarón • Snapshots from the Set, a new documentary featuring actors Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira, producers Gabriela Rodríguez and Nicolás CeIis, production designer Eugenio Caballero, casting director Luis Rosales, executive producer David Linde, and others • New documentaries about the fiIm’s sound and postproduction processes, featuring Cuarón; Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay, and Craig Henighan from the postproduction sound team; editor Adam Gough; postproduction supervisor Carlos Morales; and finishing artist Steven J. Scott • TraiIers • Alternate French subtitIes and Spanish SDH for the fiIm • PLUS: Essays by noveIist VaIeria LuiselIi and historian Enrique Krauze |