Photo: Diego Luna as Tenoch, Maribel Verdú as Luisa, and Gael García Bernal as Julio in Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mamá También
Alfonso Cuarón's Mexican rendition of Jules and Jim is as playful and politically scatterbrained as Truffaut's Nouvelle Vague classic but has the raunchier upper hand: Oskar Werner and Henri Serre never would have thought of doing the horizontal tango. Best friends Julio (Gael García Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna) bid farewell to their girlfriends after coordinated bouts of comic coition. The lonely boys drop E and smoke up while setting their sights on Spanish beauty Luisa (Maribel Verdú), the wife of Tenoch's loutish cousin Jano (Juan Carlos Remolina). During a family wedding—attended by Mexico's heavily-guarded president (lest we forget this is a subtly political film)—the horny lotharios plan a road trip to the fictional beach Heaven's Mouth. Jano's disclosed extra-marital affair conveniently spurns Luisa to join Julio and Tenoch's weekend excursion, during which both men are dumbfounded by her out-of-nowhere Jeanne Moreau routine.
Alfonso Cuarón's Mexican rendition of Jules and Jim is as playful and politically scatterbrained as Truffaut's Nouvelle Vague classic but has the raunchier upper hand: Oskar Werner and Henri Serre never would have thought of doing the horizontal tango. Best friends Julio (Gael García Bernal) and Tenoch (Diego Luna) bid farewell to their girlfriends after coordinated bouts of comic coition. The lonely boys drop E and smoke up while setting their sights on Spanish beauty Luisa (Maribel Verdú), the wife of Tenoch's loutish cousin Jano (Juan Carlos Remolina). During a family wedding—attended by Mexico's heavily-guarded president (lest we forget this is a subtly political film)—the horny lotharios plan a road trip to the fictional beach Heaven's Mouth. Jano's disclosed extra-marital affair conveniently spurns Luisa to join Julio and Tenoch's weekend excursion, during which both men are dumbfounded by her out-of-nowhere Jeanne Moreau routine.
