(Mexico, 2018)
Cuarón, A. & Celis, N. (Producers) & Cuarón, A. (Director).
The film chronicles a year in the life of Cleo, a domestic worker / nanny employed by a middle-class family in Mexico City. Set in the 1970s, the story revolves around the challenges faced by the Mixtec young girl, but also by Sofía, her employer. Sofía’s marital crisis and eventual divorce and a country shaken by political unrest are parallel plot lines. The story follows Cleo as she falls in love, conceives a child, loses it, and risks her own life to save Sofía’s children from drowning.