Cristina Orozco, Diego Catano, Eireann Harper, Mariana Elizondo, Michele Alban ...( see more  see more... ) , Salvador Elizondo

One year in the lives of Molly, a 21 year old New Yorker who spends her summer in Mexico City to study Spanish, and Diego, a 14 year old with a crush on his cousin. Diego discovers his grandfather has...( read more  read more... ) cancer and must get an operation, so to help with the expenses, Diego's mother rents out a room in their house. When Molly returns to Mexico in the winter, she rents the room and meets Diego. Diego's feelings for his cousin are thwarted with his new obsession for Molly. When she returns to New York, Diego follows and they spend a day in Coney Island before saying goodbye for the last time.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 18 min.

Directed by: Jonás Cuarón

Release Date: March 23, 2007

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  • July 25, 2009
    I thought the whole experimental nature of this movie (made entirely out of still photographs and voice-over dialogue) was going to be boring and uninteresting after the first 10 minutes or so, and I was scared because it seemed like a very cool idea to be wasted. The best thing,...( read more) by far, from this beautiful film is the fact that it surprised the hell out of me by being absolutely entertaining and light, easy to digest and enjoy, considering you're watching, in lack of a better word, a slide show. But the great thing about it is that it isn't just a slideshow: it's a breathtaking work of editing to put everything together in a logic, easy-going way and then decide how many seconds/frames we're going to watch each picture, some of them more time and some of them very quickly, in order to accomplish a great rhythm that many conventional movies don't have! After a while, you truly forget you're watching only still photos and the dialogue is so extraordinary, it takes you by the hand into a cute first-love story between a horny teenager and a naive, innocent and slightly dumb American girl. They don't understand each other beyond language barriers: they simply don't speak the same "language" when it comes to love and relationships, specially all the flirting part which is awkward to the point of extreme hilarity and uncomfortable because we've all been there. The subtitles work beautifully by translating everything that is heard, Spanish and English, into the opposite language, a nice detail that may be unimportant to some but it is, in fact, a way to put everything together and forget about the language for 78 minutes: all the characters have serious communication and understanding issues, despite their language being the same or different and Jonás Cuarón succeeds at telling us that language is not the ultimate communication obstacle behind relationships.

    It blows your mind how simple/light, yet beautiful, this film can be, despite its apparently complicated nature. Give it a try, it's worth every single minute.
  • September 29, 2009
    The second the narration starts, you just completely forget you are watching still photographs for 70+ minutes. The story is so extremely simple, but executed with such lovely, funny, sweet and touching characters that you can't help but fall in love; it was a will-they-or-won't-...( read more)they anxiety I was very happy to be going through. I can't describe the movie anything better than pure enjoyment all the way through.
  • July 23, 2009
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