Lesson #120

The new Netflix film "Roma," directed by Alfonso Cuarón, is an intimate black-and-white portrait of an upper-middle-class family in Mexico City in the 1970s"”and the way the film's hero, Cleo, is both part of the family and apart from it. The film is a triumph for Cuarón and also for Yalitza Aparicio, the actress who plays Cleo. It was her first role in a movie. Plus, learn the phrasal verb "kneel down."