The Twisting Nature of Love: Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma

This chapter is a review of Alfonso Cuarón’s autobiographical movie Roma (2018), set in Mexico City and incorporating the massacre that took place on the feast day of Corpus Christi in 1971. The chapter explores the film’s attention to class relations, in particular between the bourgeois family at the film’s center and their young servant woman, and considers the role of domestic servants in binding together Mexican family life.