Y Tu Mama Tambien
Y tu mamá también (literally "And your mother, too", but released in English-speaking markets under the original Spanish title) is a 2001 Mexican film directed by Alfonso Cuarón. more...
A coming-of-age story about the road trip of two teenage boys with a woman in her twenties, the film is set against the backdrop of the political and economical realities of present-day Mexico, specifically at the end of the uninterrupted seventy-year line of revolutionary Mexican presidents from the PRI, and the rise of the opposition headed by Vicente Fox. It has been universally acclaimed as an extremely erotic film, filled with depth and unspoken meaning.
Primary cast:
- Maribel Verdú: Luisa Cortés
- Gael Garcia Bernal: Julio Zapata
- Diego Luna: Tenoch Iturbide
- Diana Bracho: Silvia Allende de Iturbide
- Andrés Almeida: Diego 'Saba' Madero
- (All the principal characters share surnames with protagonists from Mexico's post-Columbian history.)
Awards
- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Nominations
- Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay (Carlos Cuarón & Alfonso Cuarón)
- BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenply (Carlos Cuarón & Alfonso Cuarón)
- BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language
- Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
Plot summary
After their girlfriends have departed to Europe, Julio (Gael GarcÃa Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna) are free to make their own holiday plans. Julio comes from a lower-middle-class setting, while Tenoch's father is a high-ranking political dignitary. At a wedding they encounter Luisa (Maribel Verdú), the Spanish wife of Tenoch's cousin Alejandro, who stirs their sexual curiosity. They invent some mythical secluded beach on the Oaxaca coast and tell her they want to go there, hoping she will come along, but she declines.
A few days later, she has changed her mind and agrees with the plan, which is problematic for the boys because they do not know how to find a place like the one they described to her. They enlist the help of their drug-supplying friend Saba (Andrés Almeida), who gives them rather hazy instructions, as well as figure out how they are going to get a car.
During the trip, sexual banter between Julio and Tenoch takes place, in which it gradually becomes clear that they have been sleeping with each other's girlfriends. At first, this revelation is met with disgust and anger, which later gives way to some degree of excitement at the thought. They also battle for the sexual favors of Luisa, who sleeps first with one, then with the other one, but later teases them that they should really be having sex with each other. Luisa is seen crying when she is alone.
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