Gravity

The most personal project to date from director and writer Alfonso Cuarón, Roma chronicles a turbulent year in the lives of a middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City. Cuarón, inspired by the women from his childhood, delivers an artful ode to the matriarchy that shaped his world. A vivid portrayal of domestic strife and social hierarchy amid political turmoil, Roma follows a young domestic worker of Mixteco heritage, Cleo, and her co-worker Adela, also Mixteca, who work for a small family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma.

Two teenagers from different social classes see their girlfriends off to Italy for the summer and are then bewitched by an alluring Spanish woman whom they meet at a wedding. When she agrees to accompany them on a trip to the beach, the three form an intense and sensual bond that will ultimately strip them bare, both physically and emotionally.