From the cinematography to the sound to the acting, this is one excellent film.  In black and white we watch life unfold for an indigenous domestic worker who toils for a middle class family in the 1970s Mexico City neighbourhood of Roma.  Political unrest is the backdrop for director Alfonso Cuaron’s (whose last film was “Gravity” with Sandra Bullock) (semi-)autobiographical tale, sometimes told up close and sometimes from a distance.  It’s a quiet film in which every sound is important; a bleak view of the human race punctuated by moments of hope; and very slow-paced but, if you accept it, engrossing.  First time actress Yalitza Aparicio, the woman at the heart of the story, is very impressive. (Subtitles).  Now on Netflix too.

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