Roma (2018)

For the April session of our Law and Film series we have invited Professor Helena Alviar García to discuss, analyse and theorise Alfonso Cuarón’s latest and much lauded feature: Roma (2018).

Returning to his native Mexico for the first time since his equally striking Y tu mamá también, and moreover to his own upbringing in the county’s vibrant capital, Cuarón carefully depicts the lives and struggles within a middle-class family through the eyes of their live-in-maid, Cleo. Shot in a gorgeous black and white, Roma provides both a moving aesthetic experience as well as a powerful social commentary on class and race in 1970s Mexico.

Together with Professor Alviar García we will discuss these dimensions through prisms of family and labour law.

The Law and Film team:
>Vittoria Becci (Sciences Po Law School), Alexia Katsiginis (Sciences Po Law School) and Edward van Daalen (McGill Law Faculty).

Invite-only event.