''Roma'' is a 2004

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directed by

Adolfo Aristarain Adolfo Aristarain (born October 19, 1943) is an Argentina, Argentine film director and screenwriter who is famous for his filmic sophistication and subtle examination of issues of political oppression. ''Variety (magazine), Variety'' has deemed ...

and starring

Juan Diego Botto Juan Diego Botto Rota (born 29 August 1975) is an Argentine-Spanish film, stage and television actor. Born in Argentina, he moved to Spain together with his mother (the actress and acting coach Cristina Rota) in 1978. Following early film appe ...

, Susú Pecoraro and

José Sacristán José María Sacristán Turiégano (born 27 September 1937), better known as José Sacristán, is a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor. At Gijón International Film Festival in 2015, he received the Nacho Martinez Award. At the 60 ...

Synopsis

Young journalist Manuel Cueto (

) is sent by his publisher boss to help the solitary novelist Joaquín Góñez (

) finish his long-overdue last book, which will be an autobiography. Brought out of his loneliness by the young man, Joaquín reminisces about his youth and experiences in

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during the 1960s and 70s before reloctaing to

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, as well as his intense relationship with his mother Roma, who was and still is the most important person in Joaquín's life.

Cast

as Manuel Cueto/Joaco * Susú Pecoraro as Roma Di Toro *

as Joaquín Góñez * Agustín Garvíe as Joaco *

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as Áteo Di Toro *

Marcela Kloosterboer Marcela Kloosterboer (born July 5, 1983 in Vicente López, Argentina) is an Argentine actress and occasional singer and businesswoman. She won Martín Fierro Award for Best New Actress in 1998 for ''Verano del '98'' and earned Argentine Film C ...

as Reneé *

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as Guido * Marina Glezer as Alicia *

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as Joaquín father *

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as Betty *

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as Gustavo Smirnoff * Raúl Rizzo as Doctor Cassano *

Jean Pierre Noher Jean Pierre Noher (born May 5, 1956) is a French-born Argentine actor. Biography A great-nephew of director Max Ophüls, Noher was born in Paris, in 1956. He relocated to Argentina as a young man, and debuted on Argentine television with a p ...

as Pando * Alberto Jiménez as Publisher (son) *

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as Portera *

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as Ma Joad (archive footage) *

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as Tom Joad (archive footage)

Critical reception

Jonathan Holland, film critic for ''

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'' magazine and reporting from the

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, liked the film and wrote, "Argentine helmer Adolfo Aristarain turns a compassionate eye toward his own spiritual and political education in the rangy, quietly affecting and rewardingly intense ''Roma'', his most achieved work to date. Lengthy, but not over-long, rites-of-passage yarn takes one young man's life as the focal point for the struggles which tore Argentina apart in the late '60s and '70s, as well as being an homage to the dangerous pleasures of self-discovery. Film garnered positive reactions at home on its spring release and has the emotional coherence to strike universal chords offshore".Holland, Jonathan
''Variety'', film review, July 15, 2004. Last accessed: February 17, 2008.

References

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