DISOBEDIENCE + ROMA

In this episode we're talking about Sebastian Lelio's follow up to 'A Fantastic Woman', the acclaimed drama 'Disobedience', and Alfonso Cuaron's 'Roma' which sees the director of 'Gravity' revisit monochromatic memories of his childhood.

In the same year as winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio delivers the English-language Disobedience, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams. When her estranged rabbi father suddenly passes away, Ronit (played by Oscar-winner and co-producer Rachel Weisz) returns from New York to the north London Orthodox Jewish community that rejected her years previously after a scandalous transgression.

The most personal project to date from Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Roma follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s.

Discussing the films this week are Kelly Powell, Sam Howlett and Jake Cunningham.

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Produced and edited by Jake Cunningham

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