How Shopping for a Crib Turns Violent in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Personal emotions intersect with national ones in “Roma,” the Mexican writer-director Alfonso Cuarón’s interpretation of his 1970s childhood. In this scene, the pregnant protagonist, Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), goes to a furniture store to shop for a crib. On her way, she passes a student demonstration on the Mexico City streets and, while she’s in the store, a paramilitary group attacks the demonstrators, an episode based on the 1971 Corpus Christi massacre when students were killed at a protest.

Narrating the sequence, Cuarón discusses what it took to pull it together, which meant working with hundreds of extras and rehearsing the intricacies of the scene weeks ahead of time on a football field.

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