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Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Diana Bracho, Diego Luna

Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, rich teenagers Tenoch and Julio meet older woman Luisa at a wedding. Trying to impress Luisa, the friends tell her they are headed on a road trip to a be...( read more  read more... )autiful, secret beach called Boca del Cielo (Heaven's Mouth). Intrigued with their story and desperate to escape, Luisa asks if she can join them on their trip. Soon the three are headed out of Mexico City, making their way towards the fictional destination. Along the way Luisa seduces the two young men, and they begin to argue over her. As they continue their journey, caught up in their own world, the wealthy trio all but ignores the harsh realities of poverty that surround them.

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R, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón

Release Date: April 1, 2001

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  • AgentLexi2132
    November 10, 2009
    AgentLexi2132
    ''Truth is cool but unattainable... the truth is totally amazing, but you can't ever reach it.''

    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.

    Maribel Verdu: L...( read more)uisa

    A Mexican rite of passage story framed as a road movie, Y tu mama tambien is funny, rude and eventually quite touching. The road in question leads to an imagined beach named Heaven's Mouth, the spontaneously created fantasy of two horny sex mad seventeen year-olds, Julio (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna). Cheekily flirting with Luisa, a 28 year-old from Madrid, the lads unwisely invite her to join them on an unplanned trip to their mythical beach, not for one moment expecting her to say 'yes'. She does, after having her own personal problems.

    The motivations of the hormonally-charged Julio and Tenoch are not hard to fathom. They want to get laid, and Luisa duly obliges by seducing each of them in turn. But the seductions prove to be a catalyst for some painful self-discovery as the young men come to realize that they know rather less about women, about each other, and about themselves, than they presume they do. Luisa's motivations remain enigmatic, until a dramatic revelation at the film's climax.

    ''Who cares who you two fucked when you come that fast!''

    Writer-director Alfonso Cuaron is here heavily indebted to Francois Truffaut, whose Jules et Jim this movie strongly resembles in two particular ways. It's not simply in the time-honoured theme of two close male friends besotted by the same alluring and slightly mysterious woman. It's also in the use of the distancing device of a narrator who serves to provide a degree of hindsight to an extremely up-close-and-personal story, locating it in a wider social context. In this latter regard, where Truffaut used newsreel footage, Cuaron cleverly incorporates fleeting glimpses of events taking place along the road as the journey unfolds: fatalities, drug busts, folk festivals. These brief sightings reveal almost subliminally an alternative Mexico of political corruption and economic poverty, but also of the endurance of the human spirit.

    It's a world that the over-privileged but under-nurtured Julio and Tenoch have scarcely begun to connect with. Cuaron's knack for displaying social injustice is as acute as his ear for raucous teenage banter and it gives his film a resonance beyond the reach of the average teen comedy. There's a raw, improvised feel to the script that is entirely successful in conveying the fluctuating moods and energy levels of its testosterone-fueled protagonists. Bernal and Luna fling themselves into their roles with engaging enthusiasm and humour. Verdu is pleasingly understated in a role that seems a little under-developed. Perhaps deliberately, Cuaron never allows us to get too close to the heroine.

    Y tu mama tambien is an entertaining and perceptive snapshot of a very distinct moment in its characters' lives. Julio and Tenoch are captured on the verge of adulthood, and Luisa on the threshold of a mental and physical journey concluding.

    ''Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea.''
  • SirPant
    September 16, 2009
    SirPant
    Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal have become quite a popular double act in South America and you can see why in this film. Unfortunatly though, I found Y Tu Mama Tambien to be a bit of a dissapointment. Its become a victim of its own hype. It's not a bad film at all, just not as...( read more) good as i'd been lead to believe.
  • mrpopcorn
    July 24, 2009
    mrpopcorn
    "Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea."

    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.

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    `Jules & Jim' go South of the Border could have been the pitch filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron made in this funny and at times unexpectedly touchingly real look at sex, friendship, love and life lessons involving two immature Mexican buddies (Bernal and Luna) who hook up with sexy Verdu on a road trip to a seemingly fictitious beach whereby en route they discover some revealing things about themselves together and apart. Frankly sexual yet not exploitative in its depiction of unbridled passion and having an almost quasi-documentary feel to its underpinnings. A real sleeper that uncorks the differences between the sexes and a true coming of age story that rings universal no matter what language it is told in.
  • kenstachnik
    June 1, 2009
    kenstachnik
    Can't go wrong with Alfonso Cuaron
  • groaningbitch
    May 31, 2009
    groaningbitch
    "and your mother too" is like the cinematic representation of mexican juvenile version of jack kerouac's "on the road", a contemporary road movie is raging outloud with audacity on epicurean narcotic indulgement and graphic sex as well as some leftist apathy on the banal mexican ...( read more)politics, a coming of age tale on the obnoxious self-centered youth. frankly, it's less than i have expected in the first place, but compared with the shallow chessy american teen movies, this one is much more provocatively realistic and joyfully poignant. it sweeps the audience, particularly males, with its gritty honesty. but except its honesty and emancipation from the ideological apparatus dominates the american cinema, it seems to lack a meaningful point. maybe that reflects the absence of respect for life is a common nowaday phenomenon?

    the story is simple, two spoilt rich kids with well-to-dp parents have excessive money and leisure time on their hands to smoke pots and shag around. what troubles them most is simply the overwhelming boredom becuz they don't have a thing to worry or concern in the world. so they whimsically targets on an older relative's lonely wife who happens to be addled with her spouse's infidelity, conjuring up a beach called heaven's mouth which may not exist to get her into a long road trip with them. they're fortunate becuz this wretched woman needs new exploration of life to savor her drab life and she may also be secretly wishing to get laid. so here they are....on the road.

    despite the dosage of sex might be a bit too heavy and spicy (as if it's a dish served for me, the audience, to taste. ha), but this movie obeys a very human tangible principle by being dialogue-driven...thru their conversations within the car, the profile of their characters are drawed with dimensions. but it depends highly on narrations to help rendering their psychological developments as well as their sweet and sour past memories. (a merit or defect?) it's freewheeling just like "on the road", kerouac's narrator sal paradise depicts all his friends' disdemeanors while himself seems to play the "metanarrative" to tell you all their thinkings. but the narrator in the movie doesn't play a part in the story but stays detached like a voyeurist.

    the kerouac beatniks in "on the road" still holds a yearning to seek some spirituality even their carnial fleshes are rotten with overflown desires. somehow the youth in "and your mother too" lose that course of mentality for sure, their main purpose is potential orgy. and also women in "on the road" is simply sex objects devoid of character dimensions as the men are probing life while shagging them(pardon the phrase..)..but "and your mother too" seems to reverse that, woman is the one in search of a meaning, the motor to drive the men forward as she's getting her un-satisfactory laids(transiet and lack of "quality"), she's contemplating on life, weeping her way over a divorce, solving it resourcefully with tenderness despite her behaviours, on the other hand, aren't quite discreet.

    the audience would firstly associate this movie by the sex since the woman character is too willing and available like an ideal phallic dream for male adolescents: a hot mature chic is more than ready for your penetration and she's also maternally big-hearted enough to offer your pal once just to mend your brotherly companionship. most of all, she ain't timid over a spontaneous threesome. where you could obtain such divine opportunity?? huh? primarily, the audience would surely dismiss the feministic aspect of it since the men are the ones sexually profited from this, but the movie is also frank enough to expose that young dudes cannot give gratifying sex. (at least they're "polite" enough to apologize for it)..but the whole story is about the woman's anew expenditure to break thru her withered life of temporality.

    in the field of film noir and beat generation literature, american outlaws, criminals or rebellious youth always escape to mexico, a primitive land of vitality, for a glimpse of light for life. how about mexicans themselves? to run even further from the metropolitan area to the savage highways close the pacific ocean. thus i call it comtemporary mexican interpretation of "on the road"...

    (ps) as you're watching it, you might feel the digust that why a educated well-shaped woman could be so low to condescend herself as a cheap gratuitous plaything for two brats who cannot even....and the boys are all self-centered enough to neglect the fact she's crying herself in the phonebooth inside the tavern. no one consoles her while herself is lightened up with the spirit to teach these two brats the truth of life, some free sex lessons as well as some meanings of things.(wouldn't that be a bit TOO EASY?) you won't excuse her until her disastrous revelation in the end....and one feeling i have over it would be sex is the best at the stage of your covetous imagination, watching every move in microscople makes you lose the admiring affection over the opposite sex. (it's for both man and woman)
  • Dubats
    November 20, 2009
    Dubats
    Strange and entertaining, worth watching.
  • Phonex
    November 9, 2009
    Phonex
    The story focuses on the dynamic between the three leads, all of whom are excellent. Tenoch is from a wealthy (political) family, whereas Julio is from a lower-middle class family, and lives is a cramped apartment with his family. There always a slight tension in their relationsh...( read more)ip, neither entirely confortable in the world of the other. With the addition of Luisa, there's a new element of competition.

    There's a strong fascinatino with death running as an undercurrent to the film, the camera lingering on a crashed car at the side of the road, a voice over explaining about a pedestrian killed by a car on the way to work. This isn't to suggest that the film is overly dark -- there is a lot of humour drawn from the teenagers-behaving-badly elements of the film.

    EUFS

    EUFS is too optimistic. A.C seems to me quite weak in this matter. Teens, sex, comedy, agony. Take yr. pick. Guess what ?????????????
  • speedymymy
    November 4, 2009
    speedymymy
    Premier film avec Gael garcia Bernal que j'ai eu la chance de voir, rien de nouveau mais c'est quand même génial. Tout le film je me suis demandé quel acteur je preferais, j'ai toujours pas trouvé mais Gael a peut-etre un don pour faciner le public
  • jos7as
    November 4, 2009
    jos7as
    Tarde en verla pero valio la pena de las pocas producciones Mexicanas que me han gustado pues la trama sencilla te atrapa y llena de emociones, buenos dialogos buenos momentos.
  • noelfernandez09
    October 31, 2009
    noelfernandez09
    great movie... very true... Cuaron exposes the young people nowadays.. but in terms of how the story was presented, he did very well... and again the ending threw me out... wow...

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Critic Reviews

April 19, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

If you like sex, you'll like the Mexican hit movie Y Tu Mama Tambien. full review

April 5, 2002
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

A wonderfully vibrant, contemporary coming-of-age road movie. full review

April 5, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Another trumpet blast that there may be a New Mexican Cinema a-bornin'. full review

March 15, 2002
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Road movies don't come hotter than Y Tu Mama Tambien ... full review

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  • arnoldlopezgonzalez
    November 30, 2008
    arnoldlopezgonzalez
    hola amigos osy de nicaragua y la verdad es que esta pelicula me necanta es la mejor pelica en sexo casual jajja y pues espero simpre laden o miren este peli jajaj bye
  • Alyyeta
    July 27, 2008
    Alyyeta
    Una de las mejores peliculas extranjeras q he visto...Solo cn Gael Garcia y Diego Luna TAN SEXYS...osea los van a ver cm dios los trajo al mundo! Pero lo q me enoja es q se peleen por una vieja tan fea! Pero muy buena y muy comica!
  • JesseJamez
    July 15, 2007
    JesseJamez
    i caught this movie on the showcase channel completely unexpected. Great story,characters and themes. A little extreme on the content. Overall one hellla sick movie:)
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