Review of And Your Mother Too

'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is a nicely acted and filmed drama about a woman who, escaping her existing life (for reasons only full explained at the end of the movie), hooks up with a couple of randy, affluent teenage boys. However, it's the relationship between the boys that is really at the heart of the film. The film's attitude to them is ambivalent: the occasional scene hints at their boorishness, and a strange, deadpan commentary, draws attention to their relatively privileged status in impoverished Mexico; but essentially the portrait is sympathetic, even a celebration of teenage exuberance and naiveté. Ultimately, however, to me the whole film seemed more like a preface to another movie that would have begun where it ended, in that the events have only a retrospective significance to the characters, but the structure of the movie allows no room for nostalgia until the very end. Still, director Alfonso Cuaron appears to be a major talent: this might not be a great movie, but he will surely make one in future.