'Roma': Director Alfonso Cuaron sees his latest work as a 'whole cinematic experience'
'Roma' acted like Cuaron's lens into his childhood. The lens acted as a mirror which not only helped him recall his nanny, Libo, but also perceive her.
Alfonso Cuaron brought the charm of Italian cinema back through his latest movie, 'Roma'. Starring Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, and Diego Cortina Autrey, the film, which is more of a biopic, chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family's maid, Cleo (played by Aparicio) in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
The film chiefly draws inspiration from Cuaron's memories of his nanny, Liboria “Libo” Rodríguez, an indigenous Mixtec woman from the village of Tepelmeme in Oaxaca, Mexico, who raised him from the time he was only nine months old. In its depiction of '70s Mexico, it brought into account the lives of domestic helpers who would live with families in the cities while supporting their own people in the villages.
