Roma

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Synopsis

Spanish/Mixtec-language Drama. In early 1970s Mexico City, a pregnant maid (Yalitza Aparicio) turns to her employer (Marina de Tavira) for help, after her boyfriend (Jorge Antonio Guerrero) abandons her.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, some in a civil unrest context – some blood, little detail
• Prolonged, detailed portrayal of a medical procedure – trauma and distress
• Infrequent male frontal and buttock nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use in recreational and historical contexts

Thematic elements

• Class, power, and gender
• Labour and domesticity
• Perspectives on motherhood

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for nudity and a portrayal of traumatic surgery

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