Amazon.com: DVD: Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too) - Unrated Edition (2001)
I can't say the movie breaks new ground on any non-sexual issues. The basic theme of this is that two young men "seduce" an older woman - who has just left her philandering husband - and take her to the Heaven's Mouth beach. Along the way, the two young men - a boorish member of the middle class and a callous, slightly cruel member of the ruling class of pre-Vincente Fox Mexico - battle for the affections of the older woman and reveal their betrayals of each other.
The story is only remarkable in that the depiction of sex is so frank and almost clinical, but even that sort of titillation failed to grab me. The movie is basically cliche. There are a few lines, and a few shots of rural Mexico, that interested me, but only a few. Soderburgh's Sex, Lies & Videotape or Greenaway's truly disturbing The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover are both more groundbreaking in dealing with relationships (as is Breaking the Waves, a decidedly different movie) or sex.
Frankly, it's not my style of film. I enjoy foreign films (I'm working on the original version of Insomnia right now), and I can't say that I'm against sex in film, but I didn't think that this sort of "coming of age by way of sex" notion really tells the viewer anything (well, other than the fact that the director is feeling randy).
This film doesn't travel well. I was in LA when it came out a couple of years ago. The SoCal press just fell all over themselves praising it to the hilt. By the time it made its way here to Seattle the local critics said, "Of all the movies ever made this is certainly one of them."
And for the 45 minutes I saw on a pay channel - it was OK.
Posted by: pops | Sunday, January 04, 2004 at 09:38 PM
it was hilarious. but why did you buy it?!
Posted by: j-a | Monday, January 05, 2004 at 01:14 AM
Yeah, I haven't seen Y Tu Mama, but I've heard much of the same about it. I'm not into movies in which sex is portrayed clinically. There has to be some romance involved; otherwise it's like 2 animals.
Posted by: lotus | Monday, January 05, 2004 at 12:18 PM
..or in the case of Y Tu Mama, 3 animals.
Posted by: lotus | Monday, January 05, 2004 at 12:18 PM
In my case, J-A, I bought it because Flounder, my little brother, asked for it. He's a Romance Languages student (allegedly), and he is big into Mexican and South American film.
Lotus, you're too quick. You stole my joke. :-)
Pops, Y Tu Mama was big in NYC (which may mean that we had the same release date as LA, as is often the case; which brings me to point two... I MUST SEE BIG FISH). If it doesn't travel well, it travels strangely.
Posted by: TPB, Esq. | Monday, January 05, 2004 at 12:31 PM
big fish was a really funny book, but i wonder how it will translate into film.
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