People see our other side: Mexico celebrates Roma's 10 Oscar nominations
- 5 years ago
News of Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma" being nominated for 10 Academy Awards Tuesday (22 JAN. 2019) had residents of the director's childhood Mexico City neighborhood joyfully mining their own memories and anticipating showing their children the film someday.
Cuaron's personal film shot in black and white with dialogue in Spanish and Mixtec was an atypical hit. The film dedicated to a domestic worker in his childhood home was released on Netflix allowing an audience far beyond those likely to buy a ticket to an intimate art house-type film to catch a glimpse of the capital's middle class Roma Sur, or South Roma, neighborhood
Cuaron's personal film shot in black and white with dialogue in Spanish and Mixtec was an atypical hit. The film dedicated to a domestic worker in his childhood home was released on Netflix allowing an audience far beyond those likely to buy a ticket to an intimate art house-type film to catch a glimpse of the capital's middle class Roma Sur, or South Roma, neighborhood