Y Tu Mama Tambien

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Y Tu Mama Tambien

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Y Tu Mama Tambien

Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Diana Bracho, Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Maribel Verdu

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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  • sanjurosamurai
    November 30, 2009
    sanjurosamurai
    this is a silly film. billed as a coming of age story, it plays more like a story about a married woman making two teenage boys fantasy come true. a little trashy and without purpose, this is an overhyped and pointless film.
  • 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
  • pavithravijayakumar
    December 27, 2009
    pavithravijayakumar
    watched it over 4 times...love the plot..
  • KalebGrace
    December 22, 2009
    KalebGrace
    I'm pretty indifferent about this. I like the camera work and realism factor. I don't like the characters. The sex scenes would have been better if they weren't Mexicans (lol).
  • kunam88
    December 4, 2009
    kunam88
    the wildest road movie i've ever seen !
  • 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 ?????????????
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