Roma | Silver Screen Special
Trust us or watch the trailer: the dazzling scenes in the film Roma belong on the silver screen. We present the film (which can also be seen on Netflix) with great pleasure as an exclusive 'Silver Screen' special; screenings in our largest cinema hall with 7.1 dolby sound. The beautiful black-and-white film by the Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaró (Gravity, Y Tu Mama También, Children of Men) portrays the autobiographical story of a disintegrating middle-class family in Mexico during the 70s. Winner of the Golden Lion in Venice, two Golden Globes (Best Director & Best Foreign Language Film) & winner of three Oscars.
Cuarón, inspired by the women from his childhood, delivers an artful ode to the matriarchy that shaped his world. ROMA follows a young domestic worker Cleo from Mixteco heritage descent and her co-worker Adela, also Mixteca, who work for a small family in the middle-class neighbourhood of Roma. Mother of four, Sofia, copes with the extended absence of her husband, Cleo faces her own devastating news that threatens to distract her from caring for Sofia’s children, whom she loves as her own.
While trying to construct a new sense of love and solidarity in a context of a social hierarchy where class and race are perversely intertwined, Cleo and Sofia quietly wrestle with changes infiltrating the family home. Meanwhile, Mexico City is facing a confrontation between a government-backed militia and student demonstrators.Filmed in luminous black and white, ROMA is an intimate, gut-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the ways, small and large, one family maintains its balance in a time of personal, social and political strife.