Advantages: Sexy, Funny, Clever Disadvantages: A little slow at times
'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is another film that can be considered as part of the recent Mexican/Latin American new wave cinema that includes 'Amores Perros', 'El Mariachi' and 'City of God' to name just a few.
TWO'S COMPANY, THREE'S A CROWD
Tenoch and Julio are two Mexican teenagers; one summer when their girlfriends are away they decide to try their luck with Luisa an older woman they meet at a wedding. Spinning her a tale of a beautiful secluded ...
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Advantages: a funny film with loads of sex, drugs, and alcohol Disadvantages: not for prudes!
A couple of weeks ago, 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was playing in my university's film series. I'd never seen the cinema so packed. Hundreds of students packed the auditorium and dozens more queued outside. No doubt everyone had heard that this film features a lot of sex. That's certainly why my friends and I turned up!
A lot of people assume that if a film is in a foreign language, it is sophisticated art appropriate for people of all ages. My grandparents' ...
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Advantages: A thoughtful film Disadvantages: Those subtitles
Much has been made of the sexual content of this film and yes, it’s probably not something you would want to watch with your parents in the room. However, this is a film of many layers and there’s a lot more to it than a bit of nudity and liberated behaviour. The comparisons that have been made with glib American productions like “American Pie” do absolutely no justice to this thoughtful, melancholy and beautifully shot film.
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Advantages: Good story, funny, sexy, poignant Disadvantages: Fast dialogue makes it difficult to keep up with the subtitles!
Tenoch and Julio are Mexican teenagers who seem to have little to do over the summer holidays. Their girlfriends have left to go backpacking in Europe, and the boys pass the time drinking, taking drugs, masturbating and trying unsuccessfully to pick up girls.
At a wedding they clumsily try to chat up Luisa, Tenoch's cousin's wife, by inviting her on a trip to a special beach called 'Heaven's Mouth'. After a miserable day attending the hospital ...
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Advantages: Great performances Disadvantages: None to speak of
Ana López Mercado - Ana Morelos
Diego Luna - Tenoch Iturbide
Gael García Bernal - Julio Zapata
Nathan Grinberg - Manuel Huerta
Verónica Langer -María Eugenia Calles de Huerta
Maribel Verdú - Luisa Cortés
Length: 105 mins
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
Y Tu Mama Tambien or and your mama too its translated title is a coming of age road movie. Julio and Tenoch are best friends that have just seen their girlfriends go off travelling ...
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Advantages: it will get you hooked on foreign films Disadvantages: not for people who are obsessed with american comedys
Cast :
Maribel Verdú
.... Luisa Cortés
Diego Luna
.... Tenoch Iturbide
Gael García Bernal
.... Julio Zapata
Story :
Tenoch and Julio are two seventeen year olds who typically spend all their time having sex, talking about it or getting high. That is until they meet Luisa, a twenty something Spaniard who is married to Tenoch's cousin and invite her on a road trip to find a beach called "heavens Mouth". The catch is they neglected ...
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Awesome movie.. erotic yet with a storyline... one to watch with your betterhalf, not your parents!!
Basically.. the story line is that there are two teenage guys, plenty of testoterone, until their girlfriends decide to travel around Europe.. the guys are left to entertain themselves, and end up going on a road trip with an older woman, who has recently split with her husband... the hormones rage in the car until the woman takes advantage of the ...
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Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN
This beautifully filmed, expertly acted film about two 17-year-old, middle class Mexican
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Y Tu Mama Tambien [2001]
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