Roma (2004 film)

Roma is a 2004 Argentine-Spanish drama film directed by Adolfo Aristarain and starring Juan Diego Botto, Susú Pecoraro and José Sacristán.[1]

Roma
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Directed byAdolfo Aristarain
Produced byJosé Antonio Félez
Screenplay byMario Camus
Kathy Saavedra
Story byAdolfo Aristarain
StarringJuan Diego Botto
Susú Pecoraro
José Sacristán
CinematographyJosé Luis Alcaine
Edited byFernando Pardo
Release date
  • 15 April 2004 (2004-04-15) (Argentina)
  • 18 September 2004 (2004-09-18) (Spain)
Running time
155 minutes
CountryArgentina
Spain
LanguageSpanish

Plot

Young journalist Manuel Cueto (Juan Diego Botto) is sent by his publisher boss to help solitary novelist Joaquín Góñez (José Sacristán) finish his long-overdue last book. Brought out of his loneliness by the young man, Joaquín reminisces about his youth and experiences in Buenos Aires, as well as his intense relationship with his mother Roma.

Cast

Critical reception

Jonathan Holland, film critic for Variety magazine and reporting from the San Sebastián International Film Festival, liked the film and wrote, "Argentine helmer Adolfo Aristarain turns a compassionate eye toward his own spiritual and political education in the rangy, quietly affecting and rewardingly intense Roma, his most achieved work to date. Lengthy, but not over-long, rites-of-passage yarn takes one young man's life as the focal point for the struggles which tore Argentina apart in the late '60s and '70s, as well as being an homage to the dangerous pleasures of self-discovery. Film garnered positive reactions at home on its spring release and has the emotional coherence to strike universal chords offshore."[2]

References
  1. Roma at IMDb.
  2. Holland, Jonathan. Variety, film review, July 15, 2004. Last accessed: February 17, 2008.
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