2001 Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Gael García Bernal Diego Luna Maribel Verdú Ana López Mercado Diana Bracho Verónica Langer María Aura Andrés Almeida Emilio Echevarría Nathan Grinberg Giselle Audirac Arturo Ríos Marta Aura Juan Carlos Remolina Liboria Rodríguez Silverio Palacios Mayra Serbulo Daniel Giménez Cacho Amaury Sérbulo Andrea López
Directed by - Alfonso Cuarón
Written by - Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón
Starring - Maribel Verdú, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Juan Carlos Remolina, Silverio Palacios, Andrés Almeida, Ana López Mercado and María Aura
Narrated by - Daniel Giménez Cacho
Sex; it’s sticky, it’s embarrassing and – even in these enlightened days of liberalism and pornography at the click of a button – it’s treated like some sort of shameful taboo by a large chunk of society. There are people out there who think sex is dirty and nasty and inherently bad. You know the type of people I mean; bible-belt housewives, religious zealots and angry old men who are so sexually deprived that they simply hate the idea…
Film Number 17 on PinHeadLarry145's 30 Days 30 Countries Film Challenge!
Mexico, 2002.
I think this may be tied with Love Exposure as the best film I've seen so far in this challenge. I'm sure there are other films out there that are better deserving of this much praise, but Y Tu Mamá También is one of those films that has a primal and emotional connection with me. Not that I can relate to having an erotic road trip with a Spanish woman, but I CAN relate to the reckless, immature and highly sexualized void of youth that Alfonso Cuarón so effortlessly captures.
And I think that Y Tu Mamá También is also tied with Love Exposure for being the…
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Alfonso Cuarón has always delved into stories of the present, using their immediacy and their unconquerable energy in order to speak volumes about the long gone or the far out of reach. Y Tu Mamá También, much like the salty ocean beaches that our main characters transverse, is a sublimely warm and nostalgic experience. In a way, watching it is the equivalent of sitting on a sandy shore on a Sunday afternoon. Everything is ahead of you, washing through the waves and crashing in rhythm, but your energy is focused on the present, and your emotions are lost within the scattered memories of the past.
Gays In Diners is my new favorite trope .... this film ... thelma & louise (1991) .. moonlight (2016) ... the list goes on probably
Y Tu Mama Tambien drains me physically and emotionally as well as our love triangle. Love and friendship are put to the test. Live your life the way you want to, because in the end you want to look back on your life and experiences and know that you felt and experienced all that you could. Comfortably casual with itself nothing feels out of place, events unfold so naturally I swear I was there. A seductively alluring piece of early 2000’s cinema by Cuaron and Lubezki. Lubezki’s work here feels so restrained, like Deakins. His films continually get more dazzling, but I love when the main focus is to accompany the story as evident in Y Tu Mama Tambien. A…
If I could come up with a decent portmanteau of "classy" and "sleazy" that's how I would describe Y Tu Mamá También. While sexual and political revolutions often go hand-in-hand in art, I'm hard pressed to think of one that has dicks, butts, farts and cum. All very tasteful though.
My previous viewing was ages ago, before Children of Men was released, and I wasn't sensitive to things like oners back then so it fun to see how much of Cuarón's voice is in this. It's littered with long shots, often precisely symmetrical in length with complimentary resolutions.
You can hear me yammer about the nudity while someone else highlights the allegorical elements on Ex Rated.
A coming of age tale that is a distant Mexican cousin of Jules and Jim. Unlike Jules and Jim, the homoerotic subtext becomes obvious and text. Also, instead of spanning decades, this is one hot, intense summer that is full of experimentation and self-discovery, and Cuaron conveys the urgency and intensity of the summer so well.
Just phenomenal every single time. Great rewatch value, too. Knowing the truth about Luisa totally reshapes her performance and arc. What a beautiful creation, a lucid and unashamed exploration of death, decay, and the echoes of existence that we wade through, endlessly.
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