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The Boston Globe: Visiting ROMA Film Locations
March 6, 2019
 
“Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón’s memoir of childhood in Mexico City, received 10 Academy Award nominations this year, and won in three big categories: best foreign language film, best cinematography, and best director.

Set in 1970, the movie is an intimate portrait of Cuarón’s neighborhood, Colonia Roma, and the people who populated it, especially his nanny, an indigenous Mixtec woman played by Oscar-nominated Yalitza Aparico. Filmed in black and white, the movie captures the spirit of the past, aided in part by a devastating earthquake in 1985 that slowed the district’s gentrification. On a recent visit, I was curious to see this other part of Mexico City, outside of its impressive tourist destinations. Visiting places where the movie was filmed, it was easy to imagine the area as it looked half a century ago....." continue reading