Saturday, February 19

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Year : 2001
Runtime : 106 Min.
Genre : Comedy, Adventure, Drama
Director : Alfonso Cuarón
Movie Stars : Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna
Production : 20th Century Fox
Country: Mexico
Language : Spanish
Watch Online: StageVu
Quality: Medium-Good
Subtitles: English

What can I say, this was surely interesting and a little fun adventure between two best friends and a woman they befriended at a wedding. It's a bit sexual... well, extremely sexual in content so if you have a problem with adult content such as that than this is not the movie for you.  I enjoyed the drive through Mexico with the characters and the narrator's footnotes after each major event. I hate with movies leave you with questions so the footnotes helps tons. After the trip to Heaven's Mouth it's quite obvious that Julio and Tenoch's relationship as best buddies is over, but I still found it to be depressing in a few ways. The reason I feel this way is personal reasons. I'm at that age when friends start to change and you begin to accept that you may never see them again, so when I watch movies about it I feel...I don't know how I feel, maybe impending doom. A little birdie tells me that statement is a little harsh. Anyway, let's get out of my personal life and back to the film. This is a favorite of mine because the characters grow as people and have a little fun on the way. Please watch it if you have time. Spoiler! I was surprised when Lucia died from terminal cancer after showing no signs during the whole film. Julio explained that it had spread all over her body and she died about a week after they left for home
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Plot
Julio and Tenoch's girlfriends go off to Italy for the summer. Left to themselves, they met Lucia at a wedding and invite her to a invented beach called Heavens Mouth to impress her. She immediately declines but accepts the offer after a drunken call from her husband stating that he has cheated. The three go on an adventure though Mexico looking for an invented beach and discover their own relationships and secrets buried between the friends.     





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