![]() ![]() They barely notice, but the audience is told the tragic tale of an illegal immigrant bricklayer who was killed by a speeding bus. He makes his first appearance as the boys, driving around Mexico City, pass an accident scene. While the Cuarons' script is bawdy and often funny, they employ an unusual device to make political commentary by excluding all sound except the voice of narrator Daniel Giminez Cacho ("Love In the Time of Hysteria"). The boys jealousies cause them to lash out at each other and admit to breaking the cardinal Charolastra rule, but Luisa gains the upper hand, and, amazingly, they find 'Heaven's Mouth' and the ultimate, unguarded paradise. ![]() Their frank talk about sex becomes action when Luisa sleeps first with Tenoch, then Julio. The unusual threesome quickly bond when Tenoch and Julio explain Saba's concept of the Charolastra, an astral cowboy, with clubby rules that include not cheating with a friend's girlfriend and whacking off as often as possible. Days later, after a doctor's visit and a drunken phone call from her husband, confessing to another in a long line of infidelities, Luisa calls Tenoch to see if she can still go along. When the two try to chat up Luisa at a family wedding, she tells them she'd like to go to the beach, so they make up 'Heaven's Mouth' and invite her there, never expecting anything to come of it. When he's not at home being coddled by his nanny, Tenoch takes Julio to his dad's country club on maintenance Mondays, when they're alone to swim or masturbate on the diving boards at will. ![]() Tenoch is the child of a new age psychotherapist mom and a father so wealthy he socializes with Mexico's president. Julio lives in an apartment with this secretary mom and activist sister and sleeps until mid-afternoon when he isn't in a state of high hilarity, passing joints and gas with Tenoch. "Y Tu Mama Tambien" is a refreshingly natural look at two boys on the verge of becoming men who are helped over the threshold by a woman whose motto is 'Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea.' Director Alfonso Cuaron ("The Little Princess") wanted to go back to his native Mexico to make a film, so he and his brother Carlos ("Love in the Time of Hysteria") wrote a distinctly un-Hollywood teen road movie that stops along the way to make observations on the state of their country. ![]()
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