Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
- 2001
- ·R
- ·106 min
In Mexico City, late teen friends Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata are feeling restless as their respective girlfriends are traveling together through Europe before they all begin the next phase of their lives at college.
At a lavish family wedding, Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa Cortés, the twenty-something wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano, the two who have just moved to Mexico from Spain.
Tenoch and Julio try to impress the beautiful Luisa by telling her that they will be taking a trip to the most beautiful secluded beach in Mexico called la Boca del Cielo (translated to Heaven's Mouth), the trip and the beach which in reality don't exist.
When Luisa learns of Jano's latest marital indiscretion straight from the horse's mouth, she takes Tenoch and Julio's offer to go along on this road trip, meaning that Tenoch and Julio have to pull together quickly a road trip to a non-existent beach.
They decide to head toward one suggested by their friend Saba, who seems a little confused himself of this beach's location.
On the road trip, which ends up not being totally harmonious, the three go on a trip of discovery.
For Luisa, she has to figure out what to do with her immediate future based on the news from Jano and a secret she is keeping.
And Tenoch and Julio have to figure out what their friendship really means as they grow up.
- Actors
- Ana López Mercado·Daniel Giménez Cacho·Diego Luna·Gael Garcia Bernal
- Directed by
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Genre
- Adventure·Comedy·Drama
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- Director
- Alfonso Cuarón
Online Film & Television Association 2020
- Best Foreign Language Film
- Motion Picture
European Film Awards 2001
BAFTA Awards 2003
- Best Film not in the English Language
- Best Screenplay - Original
Awards Circuit Community Awards 2002
- Best Foreign Language Film
- Best Original Screenplay
Julio and Tenoch are two seventeen year old friends who have a great desire to grow up. At a party they know a twenty-eight Spanish woman, Louisa, which they court together at the same time.
"Y Tu Mama Tambien" is yet another wonderful Almodovar film, this one from 2001. It's the story of two teenage best friends, Julio (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna), whose girlfriends have gone off to Italy.
"The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex". -Hugh HefnerWe could live without religion, but not without sex.
