Y Tu Mamá También

Unrated

10/6/20011h 46m

Premiere Release (US)

~ Life has its ways of teaching. ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Alfonso Cuarón

Status:

Released

Language:

Spanish

Buget:

$5,000,000.00

Revenue:

$33,600,000.00

Key words:

friendship
adolescence
beach
mexico
group sex
male friendship
road trip
coming of age
travel
human relationship
new mexican cinema
self reflection
self-reflexive
roadtrip
sexual discovery
melodrama
amused

Cast

Diego Luna

~ as ~

Tenoch Iturbide

Gael García Bernal

~ as ~

Julio Zapata

Maribel Verdú

~ as ~

Luisa Cortés

Daniel Giménez Cacho

~ as ~

Narrator (voice)

Diana Bracho

~ as ~

Silvia Allende de Iturbide

Verónica Langer

~ as ~

María Eugenia Calles de Huerta

María Aura

~ as ~

Cecilia Huerta

Emilio Echevarría

~ as ~

Miguel Iturbide

Marta Aura

~ as ~

Enriqueta 'Queta' Allende

Silverio Palacios

~ as ~

Jesús 'Chuy' Carranza

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Reviews (1)

k
kineticandroid
Written 11 year(s) ago
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While recently watching "Blue Is the Warmest Color," I was reminded of this film, and like "Blue," I was drawn to how the film's central relationship between Tenoch and Julio felt both astoundingly ecstatic and yet isolating, especially when it ends. It's as if the passions from their road trip to Heaven's Mouth burned too brightly to be sustained once they returned to their normal lives. I first looked at this film as a coming-of-age film, albeit one that happened to include sex scenes much more graphic than others of its genre. That opinion helps me find a reflective starting point for this film, but every time I watch it, I think more and more about the socioeconomic points Cuarón interjects throughout. I think more about how little I know about other countries, especially the one just south of my own. (I suppose Tenoch and Julio don't know that much either.) After this last viewing, I thought more about whether the the two actually learned something positive from the experience. We're told they never meet again after the film ends. What happens next? And how does this trip I witnessed mean to that answer?