Y Tu Mamá También ........any good?

[omega man]

thanks for all comments

[grounded_dreams]

Fantastic film, in my top ten of last year.

Have a look here (http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/ytumamatambien) for so reviews.

[Arch Stanton]

It's very very good.

[wong fei hong]

I only saw this a fortnight ago - it's excellent, a fabulous last hurrah for the end of carefree youth. Funny, dirty, sad, genuinely sexy. :thumbs:

[SimonI]

Having read many glowing reviews, I found it a little lacking - perhaps it's me, but i couldn't click with the characters at all. The cinematography was good at times, but the "social awareness" bits inserted into the narrative seemed gratuitous and there simply to give the film more depth. The same goes for the ending.

Genuinely sexy? I thought the sex scenes were more tawdry (deliberately, I would guess) than sexy. All in all, I much preferred Amores Perros and even Nine queens for recent, excellent Latin cinema. Oh, and the superb City of God.

All IMHO of course, and I expect I'll give it a second go sometime :)

[wong fei hong]

I understand your criticisms, SimonI. The sex was clumsy and silly, and I was never really like the two boys in the fim, but it brought me in a Proustian rush to those early sexual experiences which were more about intent and desire than, uhh, proficiency. :D I'm going to go into secret squirrel mode to avoid ruining it for omega man and anyone else who hasn't seen it.

The finale, when the protagonists drunkenly embark on a threesome, had me in tears. The moment that the boys embrace was so touchingly funny, and so clearly and sadly the signal that their relationship as it had been could no longer continue, that it became heartbreaking. When this locks perfectly into place with the revelation that the woman, Luisa, knew that she was dying, it signals to the audience that they've been watching a film about death. Literal death, but also the end of innocence, the onset of adulthood - and the voiceover is a constant reminder of death and the big wide world encroaching on the lives and concerns of these young men who are essentially still children.

I'm only 27, but it took me straight back to 17. I think it's poetry, and the meaning was all. I really loved Nine Queens too - but it meant nothing.

[SimonI]

Nicely put, wong fei hong - perhaps at 41 I'm too far down the road to respond in that same way, but your analysis certainly gives me thought to seeing it again!

[A²]

I kind of agree with both of you (SimonI, wfh)

I felt the naming of the characters, along with the (already noted) social commentaries were a little too 'please add this to your syllabus' for a true favourite, but on the whole this is a fantastic film. The only real issue I have is who to watch it with:

Partner: "Is this pron? Oh cr@p! Its got subtitles? You kidding?"
Mum: Would handle it well, but I'd cringe like a 13year old.
Dad: "Zzzzzzz..... eh? Tits! Cool... Zzzzzz"
Sister: hmmmm.. sister. Cool, I'm off to bell my sister. Byeeee.

[SOUNDSTYLE]

Well worth watching:thumbs:

[wide_inside]

Originally posted by A²
I'm off to bell my sister. Byeeee.

urgh!!!111111 is that a metaphore?

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[A²]

No, its a euphemism...

[wide_inside]

actually it's both.

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[Cirrus888]

Been wanting to see this for years and I finally caught up with it. Only so so road movie about sex and friendship nothing I haven't seen before.

[animatedude]

one of the best, most heartbreaking endings i've seen.

[unrealnils]

i was bored

[SIMON ADEBISI]

Great movie.

[PlexShaw]

Superb film.

[Alan b]

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