Roma
(DVD) 

"First printing 2020"--Container.

"With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuarón recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio, in a revelatory screen debut), the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals. Written, directed, shot, and coedited by Cuarón, Roma is a labor of love with few parallels in the history of cinema, deploying monumental black-and-white cinematography, an immersive soundtrack, and a mitxture of professional and nonprofessional performances to shape its author's memories into a world of enveloping texture, and to pay tribute to the woman who nurtured him"--Container.

Accompanying folded sheet with essays "The layers of 'Roma'" by historian Enrique Krauze and "'Roma,' or The art of making ruins" by novelist Valeria Luiselli, notes on the digital film master, and cast and crew credits inserted in container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2018.

Special features: 4K digital master, supervised by director Alfonso Cuarón; "Road to Roma (Camina a Roma)" a new documentary about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and an interview with Cuarón (72 min. : sound, color and black and white; with optional English subtitles); Snapshots from the set, a new documentary featuring actors Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira, producers Gabriela Rodríguez and Nicolás Celis, production designer Eugenio Caballero, casting director Luis Rosales, executive producer David Linde, and others (32 min. : sound, color and black and white; optional English subtitles); New documentaries about the film's sound and postproduction processes, featuring Cuarón, postproduction sound team members Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay and Craig Henighan, editor Adam Gough, postproduction supervisor Carlos Morales and finishing artist Steven J. Scott; Roma brings us together, a new documentary about the film's ambitious theatrical campaign and social impact in Mexico, featuring Celis and Rodríguez; Trailers.

Wide screen (2.39:1).

Director of photography, Alfonso Cuarón ; editors, Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough ; music supervisor, Lynn Fainchtein.

Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Daniela Demesa, Marco Graf, Nancy García, Verónica García, Andy Cortés, Fernando Grediaga.

"In Mexico City's upscale Colonia Roma district, a quiet but swift change is on its way. Pivoting around Dr Antonio's middle-bourgeoisie family, the lives of two women--the devoted live-in maid and housekeeper of Mixteco heritage, Cleo, and her academic employer, Sofía--become inextricably intertwined, as a seemingly ordinary business trip to Quebec paves the way for a bitter heartbreak. Over a span of one long year--from the quadrennial 1970s World Cup to the blood-drenched Corpus Christi Massacre--the unforeseen and sometimes unbearable complications of love; a new life amid death, and an almost stubborn will to find good in evil, pepper Sofía and Cleo's daily routines. And before irrevocable transformations and startling revelations, life always finds a way."--IMDb.

MPAA rating: R; for graphic nudity, some disturbing images, and language.

DVD, NTSC, all regions; widescreen ((2.39:1 aspect ratio); Dolby 5.1 surround.

Spanish and Mixtec dialogue with optional English and French subtitles.