ALFONSO CUARÓN: A RETROSPECTIVE
Q&A with Dierdra Reber, Associate Professor of Latin American Culture at the University of Kentucky
"Alive in a way that few movies are, Roma is a sumptuous piece of filmmaking, a gorgeous look at life on a grand scale told through the prism of one family."
— Detroit News
Cleo is one of two domestic workers who help Antonio and Sofía take care of their four children in 1970s Mexico City. Complications soon arise when Antonio suddenly runs away with his mistress and Cleo finds out that she's pregnant. When Sofía decides to take the kids on vacation, she invites Cleo for a much-needed getaway to clear her mind and bond with the family.
ABOUT DIERDRA REBER
Dierdra Reber is Associate Professor of Latin American Culture in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky. Reber is author of Coming to Our Senses: Affect and an Order of Things (Columbia University Press, 2016) and is working on a critical study of Alfonso Cuarón's full filmography, under contract with the University of Illinois Press Contemporary Film Directors Series, and a study in progress of affect, race, and Western empire. Reber's work situates film and media, and other narrative genres from literature to advertising, in the context of affect studies and broader Western philosophy over the 600-year period that comprises Western (neo)imperialism from the 1400s to the present.