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Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Claudia Ramírez, Luis de Icaza, Astrid Hadad, Dobrina Liubomirova

Tomas is a very busy fellow and is about to grow much, much busier. He has his current girlfriend in bed in one apartment, and his lady boss in bed in the next one, and he is crossing from one to the ...( read more  read more... )other on a window ledge. Neither one has figured out what he is up to. His juggling act becomes much more complicated when, on one occasion from the ledge between the two apartments he spots his pretty new neighbor. It's only a matter of time before one or all of these women give him his richly deserved comeuppance.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 34 min.

Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón

Release Date: September 9, 1991

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  • Chiefilms
    March 1, 2008
    Chiefilms
    Interesting, quirky film that uses Mexico City's surroundings well.
  • JeT0425
    January 12, 2008
    JeT0425
    Alfonso Cuarón's debut film Sólo con tu pareja is one of the best Mexican made films of the early 90s. This isn't really saying much, I guess, since Mexico didn't make that many films in the early 90s compared to bigger film producing countries. Nevertheless, this is an im...( read more)pressive debut from Alfonso Cuarón, the man who went on to make some of my all-time favourite films (Y tu mamá también and Children of Men).

    Written by Alfonso's brother Carlos Cuarón, this film is a satiric sex comedy that can be compared in many ways to Cuarón's later film Y tu mamá también. Just like también, this film opens with a sex scene and has many other sex scenes throughout (in this film, however, the sexual content is used in comedic effect for the most part).

    Tomás Tomás is a commonly seen character in Mexican cinema. He's a well known man that could get all the women he wants and does. His doctor friend tells him that he should be tested for HIV because he has a lot of random sex and when he finally does get tested he hits on the nurse taking her home later that night. When he brings her home, he realizes he also has a date with another woman and brings her to his friend's apartment which he is supposed to be watching. During the night, he plays a game of back-and-forth between rooms via the window ledge so he can keep up his appearance and not seem like a total loser for trying to pull off two dates in one night. Unluckily for him, one of his dates became fed up with his absence on their date and stormed out of his apartment and his other date found out he was seeing another woman at the same time. He lost both women and ended up looking like a fool.

    Putting the bad night aside, Tomás finds another woman, this time believing it to be true love. She lives in the room next to him and he spies on her from the window ledge. He hasn't spoken to her yet in fear of making a fool of himself. When he actually does speak to her, they get along great, but she says she is engaged and soon to be married. More bad luck comes Tomás' way when his nurse date, still angry and seeking revenge, altered his HIV test results making him believe his test came out HIV positive. Depressed, suicidal and in love, Tomás faces the biggest decision of his life.

    The plot, which sounds like a bad Mexican soap opera, is actually quite fun to watch play out and isn't as cliché as it may sound. The only clichés that come into play in this film are the ones of Mexican culture which Cuarón uses effectively in solidifying his satirical themes. One of the other main themes in this film is the focus on HIV. This film shed new light on the disease and was even controversial in dealing with the topic in a comic way.

    This film not only marked the cinematic debut of director Alfonso Cuarón, but also the cinematic debut of cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. They both worked together on numerous projects before Sólo con tu pareja, but this was their first feature length collaboration. They've also worked together on The Little Princess, Great Expectations, Y tu mamá también and Children of Men. A fantastic team, both of them being some of my favourite people working in world cinema today.

    Alfonso Cuarón is one of my personal favourite directors. He is an impressive artist that has made fantastic films and written some wonderful stories. His vision is impressive, inspirational and loyal to Mexican culture. It's inspirational especially knowing that Sólo con tu pareja (and Y tu mamá también) was Cuarón's only Mexican-produced film, the rest of his films being produced by the USA. He remained loyal to his Mexican roots and wasn't Americanized at all when filming the rest of his films in the USA.

    Overall, this film is a fantastic debut for Cuarón. It may not be his best work, but it definitely defined him as a director and proved to audiences that he is someone to watch out for. He has most recently established himself as one of the top Mexican directors (among the likes of Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo Del Toro), but is not only known to Mexicans, he's known internationally (especially after filming Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban). If you're a fan of Mexican cinema, Alfonso Cuarón or even a good satiric comedy, I highly recommend this film to you.
  • smootysveen
    July 23, 2008
    smootysveen
    Pretty fantastic dream sequence in the middle.
  • nanyelimg
    October 9, 2009
    nanyelimg
    no es un peliculon, pero a mi me gusta y me divierte mucho de mis peliculas mex favoritas.
  • hossein13
    August 17, 2009
    hossein13
    Aug 09 - Quite Funny but very shallow.
  • fernandorafael
    September 27, 2008
    fernandorafael
    Good dark comedy. Alfonso Cuarón's first film shows raw talent, that he would later polish in the awesome Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN and the masterpiece CHILDREN OF MEN. The script is sharp and very funny, presenting a great original story. The camera work is impressive, as well as the ex...( read more)terior shots. Daniel Giménez Cacho, one of Mexico's finest actors, is incredible here. My only complaint is the climax. It seemed as if the movie resolved itself too quickly, and the characters were driven to suicide by something that happened only moments before. The style and comedic tone reminded me a little of early Almodóvar.
  • jes25924
    September 8, 2008
    jes25924
    HA!

    The first film by Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Children Of Men, HP: Prisoner Of Azkaban), is a multi-layered satire of Mexican culture, and a hilarious lighthearted dark comedy?

    Tomas is an ad agent, and ladies man by reputation. He...(read more) 's trying to th...( read more)ink of a new slogan for the worst Chille in Mexico, sleeping with his boss, and trying to balance a revolving door of woman, with an interest in a mysterious new neighbor....which is all pretty standard Spanish language sex comedy (at the time this film was financed by the Mexican government the overwhelming majority of Mexican films where the kind of saucy soaps you see on Telemundo apparently)...which is why a little over half way through the film, a jaded ex lover of Tomas', falsifies his AIDS report to make him think he is HIV positive, and then the fun really begins.

    It's as well crafted and gorgeously shot as any of Cuaron's other films, and the in-titles used before the film, do not merely recall the french new-wave, but serve as linguistic puns for each section of the film, be they the poem by E. E. Cummings about the color green (used again and again in this film, shoes, rooms, the Aids report),to the Itsy Bitsy Spider(and the crossing the ledge sequence), to Newtons third law of thermodynamics, to the Olympic Slogan, each heading really does say a lot. It's appropriate that the last heading be an actual slogan, which is what Tomas is trying to come up with for most of the film. And in the end, a slogan is what he get's "love is the cure for those sick of life". Like the traditional comedies of old, it even ends with a marriage!

    The film is a satire of Mexican soaps, but also the way Mexico sells it's stereotypes,(Tomas's neighbors ditch, two Japanese business associates who don't speak any Spanish with Tomas, to go watch "the new Kurosawa film". Tomas takes them through a montage of traditional Mexican debauchery, Mariachi's, bars, something that looks like shots of Tequilla..?, etc), and let's not forget the scene of the Aztek running epically down the beach (one of the first scenes), only to run into a Conquistador and offer him Gonzalez Beans, as it had all along been a commerical. Or the dream sequence on the plane with Mexican wrestlers, Mariachi's and a host of assorted references.

    I can see how some could compare this to Pedro Almodvar, the zany surrealism of "What Have I Done To Deserve This" comes to mind, easy. But even at his best Almodvar was never this laugh out loud funny.

    In some ways it's also a coming of age tale, it begins with a sex scene (like Y Tu Mama Tambien), where Tomas claims he has no condoms, though a few moments later we see that he has plenty(not that he ever uses them, this scene plays out more than once). At the end he is buying a pack for himself, just as his friend the gynecologist, so envious that Tomas can indulge in the desires he represses, by the end of the film, is able to see his relationships in a new light as well.

    That being said, this was really, really, funny, clever, and just a pleasure to watch.

    "No ma'm you can't get AIDS through the phone!"
  • divinetrash
    September 2, 2008
    divinetrash
    The films is funny all the time, but sometimes that's just all that it is. Still, it's a nice black farce that at times reminded me of Almodóvar.
  • Capitansalgado
    April 19, 2008
    Capitansalgado
    Lo mas rescatable del cine mexicano contemporaneo: Original y divertida pero sin buscar el morbo.

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September 19, 2006
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Like Y Tu Mamá También, Alfonso Cuaróns first feature, made 15 years ago, is a rambunctious sex comedy shadowed by mortality.

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