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Y Tu Mama Tambien

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002) IFC Films, 1 hr. 45 mins.

Starring:
Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna

Directed by:
Alfonso Cuaron

 

Writer-director Alphonso Cuaron (1995's "A Little Princess") manages to spin a gregarious coming-of-age tale that injects some life into the wearisome on-the-road movie genre by conjuring up the deliciously provocative Mexican journey pic Y Tu Mama Tambien. This lusty and piercing study at the sexual proclivities of an unlikely threesome as they hit the road to nowhere is indeed a refreshing look at the amorous ambivalence of a soul-searching trio out to engage in some self-discovery of the raucous kind. Cuaron cleverly promotes the romantic notion of having his three horny and youthful hot-and-bothered protagonists roam the surprisingly seedy and squalor sites of the Mexican countryside that's rarely shown in cinema today. The appeal to this filmmaker's passion that's brilliantly embedded in Y Tu Mama Tambien is the innocuous deception being perpetrated; everything is an illusion and wonderment from the quickly sexual trysts to the so-called enticing beach that also happens to be an imaginary destination in the carefree mind of oblivious, erratic souls. Y Tu Mama Tambien (the title translated into the catchy schoolyard taunt "and your mother, too!") is a caustic and alluring sexual adventure that's worth the rollicking ride.

While contemplating what they will do with their time after their girlfriends depart for a lengthy European vacation, randy teens Tenoch (Diego Luna, "Before Night Falls") and Julio (Gael Garcia Bernal, "Amores Perros) wrestle with their bout of sexual nervous energy. Like most young guys their age, this pair has major sex on the brain. So realizing that their gal pals are going away for an extended period of time, Tenoch and Julio hastily engage in some creative foreplay with their babes just before their take off. And even after that session of carnal calisthenics with their sweethearts, the duo feel the need to self-gratify themselves and compare notes on their private parts. Let's face it...Tenoch and Julio got it bad in terms of an out-of-whack libido.

Perhaps the boys' fascination with their sexual drive is due to other uneventful things going on in their lives. Tenoch happens to be the rich son of a prosperous but morally bankrupt politician. Julio is less fortunate as the son of a struggling single mother whose home is that of a confining, less-than-flattering apartment. Together, the boys plan to escape their selective miseries and wallow in the good times of aimlessly traveling while sewing their wild oats. The pot sweetens when the two teens convince the lovely Luisa (Maribel Verdu), the 28-year old wife of Tenoch's distant cousin, to accompany them to a lavish Mexico City beach where it's assured that it take all their breath away. The trouble with this scenario is that the boys made up this fabrication about a beach in order to ensure that the desirable Luisa is willing to join them--a sure fire way to give them more reasons to fantasize and stimulate their already out-of-control sexual urges.

What is so frank and mesmerizing about Y Tu Mama Tambien is Cuaron's ability to parlay the free-spirited rawness and ribaldry of his leading players and use them as penetrating poster children for the modern day economical and overall emotional starvation of Mexico's chaotic times. This film is essentially a travelogue into the congested hearts of rambling individuals with no sense of balance or stability in their unfulfilled lives. All they can do is control the little bit of unquenched hedonism that exists in their aimless existence and even then that's an unpredictable feat to completely manipulate. The gawky adolescence of Tenoch and Julio and the unrepentant and bursting womanhood of the desirable Luisa make for the resounding commentary on Cuaron's honest portrait of a Mexico undergoing major political changes.

The cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki is breathtakingly vibrant as it allows the audience to indulge in the players' road trip experiences because much like them, we are on this trek with no sense of where we're going or where we'll all end up at. The actors are simply riveting as guides who only know how to act upon their pent-up feelings through a morass of promiscuous uncertainty. Both Luna and Bernal play their roving Latin lothario roles with an enthusiastic, cheeky conviction. There's this believability factor that indicates their addictive personalities are paramount to the psychological rut they're stuck in--somewhere between a reckless raunchiness and a need for resolution and redemption. And Spanish actress Maribel Verdu is marvelous as the older object-of-affection for her younger male companions. Verdu's Luisa is compelling because she too doesn't know what to make of her personal circumstances and hooking up with the two virile teenage boys was an immediate and obvious escape from her own brand of stagnation. Luisa is at odds with her own sexual frustration it seems and by toying with the hormones of her willing road admirers, it's plain to see the empowerment in her attempt to experiment with her own arousal at the expense of her youthful, studmuffin suitors. And so when opportunity knocks, these wayward folks answer the door with indecisive verve.

Y Tu Mama Tambien literally and figuratively travels all over the map in search of reclaiming its meaning and establishing a forethought of carousing conviction. This is one road trip that I wouldn't mind venturing on once again. The movie has an unassuming and quiet rage unlike any sexual awakening teen film I have seen in quite a long time. Vastly sardonic and intoxicating, Y Tu Mama Tambien is a bristle and unconventionally welcoming eye opener that refreshingly defines what it means to be an examination of sexual angst while catering to a personalized and undefined rebellion.

As a filmmaker, Cuaron has impulsively provided us with an intuitive and intrepid tour that's sure to satisfy our giddy need for viable, titillating escapism.

 

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