It amuses me to think that some Warner Brothers executives watched Y tu mamá también and thought to themselves. Alfonso Cuarón is the right man to direct the next Harry Potter film.
The film begins with two sex scenes. Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael García Bernal) are two privileged 17 year old brats in Mexico City. Both are having one last intimate moment with their respective girlfriends before the young women go off to a summer trip to Europe.
The charmless arrogant pair belong to a privileged fraternity. Life revolves around sex, drugs, alcohol and jerking off. Tenoch's father is a politician. Both boys attend a wedding reception where the President is due to attend.
At the wedding they meet enchanting Luisa who is from Spain. She is 28 years old, a dental technician. The invite her to a secluded beach in the Pacific coast and invent the name of Heaven's Mouth.
That is before they find out that she is married to Tenoch's cousin, a writer who got educated in Spain.
A few days later Luisa accepts their invitation after her husband drunkenly admits to having cheated on her again.
Tenoch and Julio need to get hold of a car and find some directions of any beach that matches the description they gave to Luisa.
Obviously both of them fancy their chances with Luisa on the trip.
Cuarón peppers his film with voice overs that show another side to Mexico. A highway where there is a traffic jam as someone got run over by a bus. He did not take the bridge as it would increase the walk to his work by several miles. His body was identified several days later. The fisherman and his family that the boys meet at a beach. He takes them on boat trips and has a small shack that serves food. He will later lose his livelihood when a luxury hotel is built.
Along the way they see a different more rural part of Mexico. They also see constant police roadblocks but the boys are ignored by the police, another sign of their privileged background.
Luisa when alone cries uncontrollably. She speaks to her husband on the phone unsure whether she is angry with him or misses him but does tell him that she will not go back to him.
Luisa also initiates a seduction of Tenoch which Julio witnesses. It causes a rift between the boys as Julio tells Tanoch that he has had sex with his girlfriend. Later she seduces Julio as well which then upsets Tenoch and he responds by telling Julio that he also had sex with his girlfriend.
Luisa later takes control of the situation by criticising both of their lack of sexual prowess which is more about their own satisfaction. She later gets intimate with both of them while noting the latent homo eoriticsm between the two.
Cuarón is another director from the Mexican new wave. His influences are the European new wave directors such as Francois Truffaut.
The movie was dubbed as the Mexican version of American Pie. The films are vastly different.
Cuarón takes a mature approach to relationships and betrayal. It is a summer where the boys grow up and move on. There are constant hints of underlying darkness beneath Mexican society, something Tenoch and Julio have been shielded from. You get a voiceover where until he was four years old, Tenoch thought his nanny was his mother.
It also has a coda when the boys meet up one year later where they catch up and talk about Luisa.
The film begins with two sex scenes. Tenoch (Diego Luna) and Julio (Gael García Bernal) are two privileged 17 year old brats in Mexico City. Both are having one last intimate moment with their respective girlfriends before the young women go off to a summer trip to Europe.
The charmless arrogant pair belong to a privileged fraternity. Life revolves around sex, drugs, alcohol and jerking off. Tenoch's father is a politician. Both boys attend a wedding reception where the President is due to attend.
At the wedding they meet enchanting Luisa who is from Spain. She is 28 years old, a dental technician. The invite her to a secluded beach in the Pacific coast and invent the name of Heaven's Mouth.
That is before they find out that she is married to Tenoch's cousin, a writer who got educated in Spain.
A few days later Luisa accepts their invitation after her husband drunkenly admits to having cheated on her again.
Tenoch and Julio need to get hold of a car and find some directions of any beach that matches the description they gave to Luisa.
Obviously both of them fancy their chances with Luisa on the trip.
Cuarón peppers his film with voice overs that show another side to Mexico. A highway where there is a traffic jam as someone got run over by a bus. He did not take the bridge as it would increase the walk to his work by several miles. His body was identified several days later. The fisherman and his family that the boys meet at a beach. He takes them on boat trips and has a small shack that serves food. He will later lose his livelihood when a luxury hotel is built.
Along the way they see a different more rural part of Mexico. They also see constant police roadblocks but the boys are ignored by the police, another sign of their privileged background.
Luisa when alone cries uncontrollably. She speaks to her husband on the phone unsure whether she is angry with him or misses him but does tell him that she will not go back to him.
Luisa also initiates a seduction of Tenoch which Julio witnesses. It causes a rift between the boys as Julio tells Tanoch that he has had sex with his girlfriend. Later she seduces Julio as well which then upsets Tenoch and he responds by telling Julio that he also had sex with his girlfriend.
Luisa later takes control of the situation by criticising both of their lack of sexual prowess which is more about their own satisfaction. She later gets intimate with both of them while noting the latent homo eoriticsm between the two.
Cuarón is another director from the Mexican new wave. His influences are the European new wave directors such as Francois Truffaut.
The movie was dubbed as the Mexican version of American Pie. The films are vastly different.
Cuarón takes a mature approach to relationships and betrayal. It is a summer where the boys grow up and move on. There are constant hints of underlying darkness beneath Mexican society, something Tenoch and Julio have been shielded from. You get a voiceover where until he was four years old, Tenoch thought his nanny was his mother.
It also has a coda when the boys meet up one year later where they catch up and talk about Luisa.