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81
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45
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42
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35
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28
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28
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22
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Y Tu Mamá También
IFC Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Maribel Verdú,
Gael García Bernal,
Diego Luna,
Diana Bracho,
Emilio Echevarría,
Ana López Mercado,
María Aura,
and
Andrés Almeida
Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, two rich teenagers meet an exotic older woman at a wedding and end up on a road trip together.
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Alfonso Cuarón
Carlos Cuarón
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Alfonso Cuarón
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 22, 2002
Video: October 22, 2002
Theatrical: March 15, 2002
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Mexico / USA |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Spanish (with English subtitles) |
Title translates in English as "And Your Mother Too"; Winner, Best Screenplay, 2001 Venice International Film Festival; Nomination, Best Foreign Language Film, 2002 Golden Globes

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
One of those movies where "after that summer, nothing would ever be the same again." Yes, but it redefines "nothing."

100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
That rare thing, a Hollywood teen flick transfigured into something like pubescent scripture: In the beginning, there was lust; in the end, there is knowledge.

100
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Can be taken on many levels, and that's why it works so completely.

100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
A great, lusty movie in the tradition of Bertrand Blier's "Going Places."

100
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Echoes the unmistakable freshness and excitement of the Nouvelle Vague, the sense of joy in being alive and making movies, that made those works distinctive and unforgettable.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Frank, funny and true as "Ghost World."

100
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Part travelogue, part road picture, part meditation on class, mortality and intimacy, this extraordinary little movie might be the perfect harbinger of summer, as astute as it is steamy.

100
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Raunchy, smart, ebullient, melancholy, insightful, surprising, funny, frank and sexy as all get-out.

100
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Teems with pot smoke, body parts and profane outbursts -- you ride a giggly wave throughout, jokes and turn-ons and shocking sights alternating in buoyant fashion.
100
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Cuaron's hot-blooded, haunting and wildly erotic film revels in the pleasures of the flesh without losing touch with thought and feeling.

100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A vivid, thoughtful, unapologetically raw coming-of-age tale full of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.

100
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
One of the most joyous movies I've ever seen, and one of the handful of great erotic films the movies have given us.

100
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
There are so many good things to say about this film it's hard to find a statement that really nails it. Perhaps we can leave at this: Y Tu Mama Tambien is originality writ large.

100
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Sad, funny, sexy, and altogether marvelous.

100
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Give yourself away to this movie and you'll be glad you did.
90
Slate
David Edelstein
It's the way Cuarón demonstrates how a simple teen comedy can suddenly blossom into a study of sexual mores, a Mexican political allegory, a song of lamentation -- and still be breezy and funny and sexy as hell.

90
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A genuine rarity: a sex comedy with brains.

90
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Director Alfonso Cuarón works with a quicksilver fluidity, and the movie is fast, funny, unafraid of sexuality and finally devastating.

90
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
The funniest and most emotionally charged erotic road movie since Bertrand Blier's "Going Places."

90
Newsweek
David Ansen
The eroticism in Cuaron’s road movie (which broke all box-office records in Mexico) is the real deal: tactile, sexy, psychologically charged.
88
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Unabashedly frank in its depiction of sex -- too frank, probably, for more discreet viewers -- but it's never exploitive or seedy.

88
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Like watching an American teen-sex comedy through a glass darkly.
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
"You're so lucky to live in Mexico," Luisa says. "Look at it -- it breathes with life." So does Y Tu Mama Tambien, both the pant of passion and shuddering sigh of regret.

88
Boston Globe
Jonathan Perry
Sensual, funny, and moving film.

80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
In the wild and consistently surprising Y Tu Mamá También, anything isn't the half of it.

80
Time
Richard Corliss
If this sounds like an old-fashioned sex comedy, it is -- sexy, for sure, and funny, in wild spurts.

80
New Times (L.A.)
Bill Gallo
In elevating bawdy teen farce to political metaphor without squeezing the fun out, Alfonso Cuarón has pulled off a nice little miracle.
75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Director Alfonso Cuaron ("A Little Princess") gets vivid, convincing performances from a fine cast, and generally keeps things going at a rapid pace.

70
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
There is plenty to inflame in this picture and nothing to corrupt. [18 Mar 2002. p.152]
70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
For what could easily have been a slickly vulgar variation on "American Pie" or "Porky's", this libidinous comedy explores some unusually complicated territory, and benefits greatly from Verdú's unpredictable performance as Luisa.

70
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
It has the charm of the original American road movies, feasting on the gorgeous, ramshackle landscape of the filmmaker's motherland.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
It's often diverting and occasionally funny, but it's ultimately inconsequential.

60
Film Threat
Bradley Gibson
The story is set in real world Mexico, not a cleaned-up movie world simulacrum.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Too much repetition and an unconvincing finale take a toll on the film's overall effectiveness.

40
Variety
Leonardo Garcia Tsao
The film's biggest limitation is its oversexed, underdeveloped male duo. Playing like a south-of-the-border version of Beavis and Butt-head, the teenagers have but one thought in their heads.


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