Cleo works long hours in 1970s Mexico City as a maid in the home of Antonio and his wife Sofia. The couple have four demanding children, whose care is part of Cleo's daily duties, and they share the household with Sofia's formidable mother Teresa. Over the course of 12 turbulent months, Cleo witnesses fissures in her employers' marriage against a backdrop of social and political unrest in the city. The maid faces her own romantic woes when her relationship with boyfriend Fermin buckles
Alfonso Cuarón, the Oscar-winning director of Gravity, opts for art house black and white to tell this poignant semi-autobiographical drama. Set in the comfortable upper middle-class neighbourhood of Roma in Mexico City, this compelling story centres on a marriage slowly splintering apart and the native Latina live-in maid who stands at the swirling heart of the family for whom she works. Non-professional actor Yalitza Aparicio was chosen by the director to play the loyal and loving Cleo, a quiet young woman who is more mother than maidservant and looks after the fractious Sofia (Marina de Tavira) and her children. As Mexico undergoes the political traumas of the early 1970s, Cleo indoors shows us how to keep calm and carry on. Surprisingly, the film is shot without his regular cinematographer, triple Oscar-winner Emmanuel Lubezki, but Cuarón takes over lighting and camera duties to striking yet effortless effect. That's in addition to writing and co-editing a sublime love letter to his youth.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Cleo | Yalitza Aparicio |
| Sofia | Marina de Tavira |
| Toño | Diego Cortina Autrey |
| Paco | Carlos Peralta |
| Pepe | Marco Graf |
| Sofi | Daniela Demesa |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Alfonso Cuarón |
