And your mother, also...
April 22, 2002

A best bet at the movies is Y tu Mamma Tambein. Freakin awesome film. Honest, insightful and raw, Alfonso and Carlos Curson really capture a telling moment in the life of the characters played by Diego Luna Gael Garcia Bernal and Maribel Verdu.

Verdu plays the ultimate in male fantasies, the sexually alluring older female, the achievement of which fractures the relationship between Bernal and Luna�s characters. (Incidentally, their characters are namedfor two major figures in Mexican history. �Zapata� I picked up on, but �Iturbide� was lost on me. Time to go get a book on Mexican history.) It's the resulting fractures, the repair of them and the subsequent playing out of all that it implies, that gives the film its heart.

The film is pretty frank. As it�s unrated, it goes into great, graphic detail into all aspects of the character�s lives, from drug use to sex to young adult hood to growing apart. It doesn�t glamorize any of it, simply treats it as matter of fact. The film also raises quite a few questions about love, living and male bonding. It makes no pretense at answering those questions, only showing how they arise and how they are quickly pushed away because of what those answers might mean. And if you�ve seen the film, or have yet to see it, the crux of this focuses around kissing � how each of the kisses throughout the film mean one thing and suggest something else and create a totally unintentioned result in the lives of all the characters.

You do walk away thinking about friendship, love and the reasons behind what we do.

Posted by Jody at April 22, 2002 10:46 AM

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