

“There are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform us as individuals.”
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
Director
Writer
Status
Released
Original Language
ES
Budget
$15,000,000
Revenue
$1,140,769

Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.


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MyROMA Q&A with Writer/Director Alfonso Cuarón
Featurette
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.