Roma (2018)

Academy Awards, USA 2019

Winner Oscar	Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Mexico
	Best Achievement in Directing Alfonso Cuarón
	Best Achievement in Cinematography Alfonso Cuarón
Nominee Oscar	Best Motion Picture of the Year Gabriela Rodriguez Alfonso Cuarón
	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Yalitza Aparicio
	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Marina de Tavira
	Best Original Screenplay Alfonso Cuarón
	Best Achievement in Production Design Eugenio Caballero Barbara Enriquez
	Best Achievement in Sound Editing Sergio Diaz Skip Lievsay
	Best Achievement in Sound Mixing Skip Lievsay Craig Henighan José Antonio García

Netflix
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Netflix)

In Mexico City circa 1970, a live-in maid works for a middle class family. The husband and wife are going through a messy separation, trying to hide it from the children. Meanwhile, the maid gets pregnant but her boyfriend abandons her at a movie theater. She finds him sometime later but he threatens her with violence. While shopping for a crib, she encounters again, this time taking part in violent student protests in which he is wielding a gun. This causes her to lose the baby in a long, grueling scene in a hospital. Afterwards, she goes with the family on vacation by the seaside and ends up saving a couple of the children from drowning. Basically a melodrama, though a pretentious one with random, inexplicable scenes thrown in for no reason other than the must have seemed interesting to the director at some point. The black-and-white cinematography by the director almost makes up for the other excesses, almost.