Shoplifters | Roma

A Japanese couple takes in a young girl that has run away from her toxic family. The story that follows will catch you “barely prepared when the full force of what it’s doing suddenly knocks you sideways” (Los Angeles Times). Koreeda offers an intelligent, clever, and original exploration of parenthood and family. 

A year in the life of Cleo, the faithful maid of a middle-class family in Mexico City of the 1970s. Cuarón offers a series of astonishing scenes – that place the film in the heart of ongoing confrontations between the intimate and the public, poverty and affluence, femininity and masculinity – and presents one of the best films of the decade.