05th May 2002
Saw the film “Y Tu
Saw the film “Y Tu Mama Tambien” last night by the promising director/screenwriter Alfonso Cuaron. Highly recommended. Charming, sexy, funny, original and, above all, believable. Beautifully acted by folks I’ve never heard of before: two Mexicans, Gael Garcia Bernal (who also stared in the popular recent Mexican film “Amores Perros,” aka “Life’s a Bitch”), as Julio, and Diego Luna, as Tenoch, two 17-year-old best friends, plus the luscious Spaniard Maribel Verdu playing Luisa, Tenoch’s cousin’s wife who, at 27, needs to reinvent her life in a hurry.
At one level, the plot is straight teenage boy fantasy — going away on a wild roadtrip with a hot, horny older woman. But it hardly comes off like American Pie Mexican-style. Nuanced, beautifully filmed, exquisitely edited and with an engaging, disarming style of narrative voice-overs, the movie is artful and poses simple but worthwhile questions about friendship, youth and the pleasures of life. Go see it. Bring a date.
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