Roma Written and Directed by Alfonso Cuarón 2018;  Espectáculos Filmicos El Coyúl; 135 minutes

A significant shift in the narrative of the film Roma occurs when Cleo, the family maid and nanny, suffers the loss of her pregnancy. Her water breaks while she is at a store looking for a baby crib, and she can't get to the hospital quickly due to the turmoil of a student protest in the streets. At the hospital, no fetal heartbeat is found and she delivers a stillborn baby. We witness, as does she, the ineffective attempts to resuscitate the baby while she looks on sobbing. She holds her dead baby for a few minutes, and then it is over.

Afterward, Cleo appears depressed and almost lifeless and, at the family's urging, agrees to take a trip with them to the seaside. At the film's climax, Cleo, who cannot swim, has been left with the children of the family, who are playing in the waves. When she sees that they are in danger of drowning, she wades into the ocean to help them. After she brings them back to shore, their mother returns, and the children tell her that they almost drowned and that Cleo saved them. Suddenly, Cleo becomes tearful and says, referring to her own baby, “I didn't want her. I didn't want her to be born.” The family gathers around her and tell her that they love her.

This is one of the most powerful scenes in Roma, a film that has many dimensions, not the least of which is the filmmaker's wish to re-create his own childhood, which includes the experience of his father leaving the family. Over the course of the film, we see the mother of the family that

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