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Roma
She held everyone else's family together, and nobody asked what she'd lost. 🌊
Who it's for
Roma follows Cleo, a live-in domestic worker, through a year in which she is abandoned by the father of her child, caught in political violence and delivers a stillborn daughter, all while continuing to care for the family she works for.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Set in Mexico City's Colonia Roma neighborhood in 1970–71, Roma follows Cleo, an Indigenous Mixtec live-in housekeeper for an upper-middle-class family. While the family is strained by the father's infidelity, Cleo finds out she is pregnant, and her boyfriend Fermín leaves her at a movie theater.
Where to find it
Netflix film. Streaming availability can change; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: A graphic stillbirth scene.
Age: R (graphic nudity, some disturbing images, language)
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series
