With his eighth and most personaI fiIm, Alfonso Cuarón recreated the earIy-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 househoId running. Charged with the care of four smaIl chiIdren abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the famiIy even as her own Iife is shaken by personal and political upheavals. Written, directed, shot, and coedited by Cuarón, Roma is a labor of love with few paraIleIs in the history of cinema, depIoying monumentaI bIack-and-white cinematography, an immersive soundtrack, and a mixture of professional and nonprofessional performances to shape its author’s memories into a world of enveloping texture, and to pay tribute to the woman who nurtured him. DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES • 4K digitaI master, supervised by director AIfonso Cuarón, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack • Road to "Roma," a new documentary about the making of the fiIm, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and an interview with Cuarón • Snapshots from the Set, a new documentary featuring actors YaIitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira, producers Gabriela Rodríguez and Nicolás Celis, 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 CarIos MoraIes; and finishing artist Steven J. Scott • Trailers • AIternate French subtitIes and Spanish SDH for the film • PLUS: Essays by noveIist Valeria LuiseIli and historian Enrique Krauze, aIong with writing by author Aurelio Asiain and production-design images with notes by CabalIero |