Y Tu Mamá También film review

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Y Tu Mamá También

(2001)

This comic road movie became the biggest home-grown box-office hit in Mexican history and it's tempting to see it as a mere foreign-language version of American Pie or Road Trip. But there's more to director Alfonso Cuarón's film than sex (which, far from titillating, is shown in all its greedy, awkward teenage haste) as two high-school graduates (played by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal) borrow a car and head off for the mythical “Heaven's Mouth” beach with unhappily married older woman Luisa (Maribel Verdú). Throughout the journey, Cuarón highlights the economic rift between Mexico's middle classes and poor with comments by a deadpan narrator. It may not be in the same league as Amores Perros (which also starred superstar-in-waiting García Bernal), but it did lead to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for Cuarón. AC

Contains swearing, sex scenes, drug abuse, nudity.

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Running time

101min

Country of origin

Mex

Genre

Road movie Comedy

Alternate title

And Your Mother, Too

Original language

Spanish

Screenplay

Carlos Cuarón, Alfonso Cuarón

Theatrical distributor

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UK cinema certificate

UK cinema release date

April 2002

UK video release date

October 2002

Subtitling information

In Spanish with subtitles




awards information


	Award	Category	Name	Nominee/Winner

	Academy 2002	Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)	Alfonso Cuarón	Nominee
	Academy 2002	Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)	Carlos Cuarón	Nominee
	British Academy Film Awards 2002	Best Film Not in the English Language		Nominee
	British Academy Film Awards 2002	Best Screenplay (Original)	Carlos Cuarón	Nominee
	British Academy Film Awards 2002	Best Screenplay (Original)	Alfonso Cuarón	Nominee
	Golden Globe 2001	Best Foreign Language Film		Nominee