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Summary: a tale of travel&desire
Review: I did not know what to expect when I saw this movie,but once the tale started, it was a great movie about a road trip with plenty of sex, beautiful scenery, beaches and sights for all. the end was a complete suprise. a well told story & an excellent movie
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Summary: Raunchy, Sexy, and Tender
Review: Most movies stick with me about as long as it takes to walk out of the lobby into the fresh air. "Y Tu Mama Tambien," is of a different order. It's all the things you've heard: a social satire, a road movie, a coming-of-age movie, and a meditation on friendship; and in all these things it is sharp, energetic, and very funny. But as a meditation on friendship, and with its message of living life as fully as possible, it is also quite moving. "Y Tu Mama Tambien" starts with a bang - you'll see what I mean - and the energy doesn't let up for one second. With all that, it even manages an extraordinarily poignant ending. It is an artfully made movie, with no artifice. The characters are real, and engaging, and they deepen as the movie progresses. ... "Y Tu Mama Tambien" is on the mark and true. I think it was a good thing for Mr. Cuaron to get out of Hollywood. This is a terrific movie, a little raunchy, very sexy, and finally very tender. I hope it lifts your day as high as it did mine.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This is one of the best yet! A description for this movie would not make it justice. The only way one can really know the movie is by watching it- even then, one would not know how to really critique the movie, because there aren't words to describe how GREAT it is!
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Summary: fascinatinf filmmaking
Review: ****1/2 "Y tu Mama tambien," a stunning new product of the New Mexican Cinema that is achieving crossover success in the American film market, is a frank, open and uninhibited celebration of teenage sex - masterfully directed by Alfonso Cuaron and beautifully enacted by a trio of first-rate performers. Don't miss it - provided you are not offended by sometimes-graphic depictions of sexual activity (please note that the film is unrated). The matter-of-fact, unflinching way in which Cuaron films his sex scenes purges them of indecency and helps to bring a new frankness to a subject all too often approached by American filmmakers in the form of tittering exploitation (wherein the directors and writers seem as adolescent in their attitudes as the characters on the screen). Not so here. The film centers around two boyhood chums, Tenoch and Julio, just embarking on their careers as university students, who, for one last glorious summer, decide to revel in all the wildness, hedonism and promiscuity that carefree adolescence has to offer (the title of the film is emblematic of the youthful immaturity of the characters). With their girlfriends away in Europe, the two decide to take a road trip through Mexico with Luisa, the attractive young wife of one of Tenoch's stuffed shirt cousins. While on the journey, the three of them not only indulge in all the bizarre sexual hijinks that both the situation and their hormones would lead one to expect, but they also learn a thing or two about life, about relationships and about how sex can be used both to bring people closer together as well as to pull them farther apart. For indeed, one thing the film makes very clear both to the characters and to us is that sex can often be employed as a weapon to wound those we care most about, especially with all the power shifting that takes place even in some of the most non-sexual of relationships. The boys also discover that sex can be used as a sublimation to avoid recognizing what one REALLY wants. This awakening leads to a final scene that is almost heartbreaking in its understated poignancy and pathos. One of the most unsettling - and thereby controversial - aspects of the film (and the one that will make it uncomfortable for many in the audience) is that it refuses to take a moralistic stance regarding its characters' behavior. The filmmakers neither approve of nor condemn what these young people do - they merely record the events with an attitude of detached objectivity that precludes any finger-wagging disapproval. If the characters learn any "lessons" from their experiences, they do so strictly on a subliminal, subconscious level - and the same goes for the audience. As a director, Cuaron displays a confidence and spirit rarely seen in filmmaking today. Along with his co-writer, Carlos Cuaron, the director has chosen to take an objective, almost documentary-style approach to the material, allowing the scenes to play themselves out in a way that makes them feel realistic, spontaneous and almost unscripted. He uses a shaky, handheld camera much of the time to enhance the immediacy of the experience. We often feel as if we are eavesdropping on the lives of these three fascinating individuals. As a result, not a single moment of the film feels forced, contrived or artificial. (Only the fate of one of the characters seems a bit convenient and contrived). Cuaron is not afraid to let the camera linger on a scene a moment two longer than necessary - nor is he afraid to let the camera wander off on its own from time to time, such as when it spontaneously follows a woman into the back of a roadside café to show us the cooks hard at work in the kitchen. Many of the shots even have an elegiac, travelogue feel to them. Cuaron has been blessed with three outstanding young actors - Diego Luna, Gael Garcia and Maribel Verdu - who bring his characters to vivid, endearing life. Utterly naturalistic in their every move, gesture and facial expression, the three of them play off each other in such a way that we never doubt for a moment the truth and sincerity of what we are seeing. American actors please take note! "Y tu Mama tambien" is a stylistic triumph from first moment to last. It has a playful, expansive spirit, as reflected in its openhearted attitude towards sex, its wry humor, its affection for its people and its country, and its visual appeal and inventiveness (Emmanuel Lubezki did the glorious cinematography). The film has heart, soul and chutzpah. What more could a jaded filmgoer want?
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Summary: La vida es como la espuma...
Review: I agree with all the reviews: this movie is very good, it is funny, interesting, sexy; the photography is excellent, with nice musical score, etc. However, I was really moved by Luisa's character. She is a very nice and tender girl. In particular I love the scene where she is in the car with the two guys and she talks about her old boyfriend, her first love. In a way, she reminds me of Avellaneda, the doomed character from Benedetti's "La Tregua" (don't know the english title)
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Summary: Conflicting Aspects of Male Sexuality
Review: This is the second of two important films which have initiated a renaissance in Mexican films. In my opinion, it is a better film than its well-reviewed predecessor, Amores Perros. Both films share the fact that a leading role is played by the talented actor Gael Garcia Bernal. However, I liked Y Tu Mama Tambien better than Amores Perros because overall the characters are much more likeable. The plot of the film involves a road trip to the Oaxacan coast undertaken by two 17-year old boys, Tenoch and Julio, who are best friends, and the older female cousin of Tenoch named Luisa. Each of the boys has a girl friend who is his sexual partner but the girl friends have gone to Italy for the summer. Luisa is 28 years old, married, but distressed at her husband's unfaithfulness. What makes this film so profound is the fact that it depicts a situation where the two boys are simultaneously best buddies and rivals to each other. Moreover, each displays both homophobia and homosexual desire toward the other.
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Summary: And My Mom Too!
Review: If there were only one foreign film I could watch for the rest of my life it would be this one...I've never heard so much laughter in any theater! This movie is not only hilarious, it is filled with emotion and tells a great story about trust and loyalty. This movie is unpredictable and the actors are phenominal and it is is definitely going to be nominated for best foreign film at next years Oscar's!
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Summary: Difference is wonderful. Don't miss this movie!
Review: ... This movie is Mexican, addressed to Mexicans and in Mexico City patois. "In Mexican", the class situations are totally clear, though this may not come through to a foreign audience. The movie is perfectly funny, sexy and light-hearted, but it's in no way a piece of fluff. There's an underlying seriousness that it never loses track of. Class questions are one aspect of it. In other words, the movie is Mexican in the sense of purposely unamerican (Mexicans are like that). The way it handles sex is especially unamerican. The spice bites much deeper than you'd expect, and it does link with the class question. (Everything is strongly linked in the movie, it's the opposite of made-by-committee.) It's also a road movie. But it refuses the spaced-out approach this implies for the two kids. The trick is that the entire movie has an off-screen narrator, who is never spaced-out. The narration tells you, "ok, that's the way the place is now, but ten years before ..." or "two years from now..." It lets you take it as a road movie, but not as a dream. All this comes from making the movie the way some American movies were made in the seventies, only with thirty years' maturing. No fancy shots, no fancy-lit stuff -- no budget and no fleet of trucks to take to each scene. Nothing is shot unless the actors *feel* like shooting it that way -- no budget for two teams of lawyer to negotiate shooting conditions. The result is acting that at times is stunning -- some images you'll remember for years. After what might have been the last image, when the trio separates, there is an epilogue that occurs a year later. This is not to be skipped. It gives the movie its true closure in the real world. However, it reveals things that the girl, Luisa, knew from the start. I feel this is a flaw. Our narrator held back information that made Luisa's behavior much more reasonable than it seemed.
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Summary: "Bubble Boys"
Review: This brilliant film takes the genre of teen comedy, only to subvert it through insight and depth. Journeying from Mexico City to a mythical beach, the two spoiled adolescents at the center of the film find that life itself ultimately explodes the protective bubbles that have isolated them from any true connection with their Spanish lady companion or their rural fellow countrymen. Bearing resemblances to the French New Wave films of the 60's, "Y Tu Mama Tambien" goes them one better. Instead of resting in brittle ironic wit, it surprises by turning genuinely moving in its final scenes. With Shakespearian gusto, Cuaron takes a stale, shallow genre and infuses it with high artistry and a fresh take on contemporary life.
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Summary: No argument, pure sex
Review: This movie doesn't tell a story, it is all about making easy money by showing sex among some popular mexican a Spanish actors. Don't spend time on this one.
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