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I just finish reading the book in which this movie is based! Its narrative is so great, I could not stop laughing and you can not stop reading this coming to age story.

The film was in cinemas for a short time in Mexico City and "caned" until now, I want to see the movie when available I hope is as good as the book.

The story goes along an teenager, 13 in the book, who lives in a fantasy world, in which he wants realize his desire to make love for the first time, and hes is planing all his life so he will be able to have every woman he wants. For now he has fallen in love with a school girl that he has not been brave enough to even talk to her and being happy to see her in a safe distance. One summer day his father sent him to find a school so he can become someone one day, but he instead decides to make his "girlfriend" a visit in the town she is expending summer vacations, then all his adventures began and surpass any fantasy he ever had!

I get fascinated by the human condition movies. What can happen in some unusual condition, how may we react? How others came across it, in real life cases or in fiction. What could happen if both parents die and you don't want your family to be separated. This film remind me "The Lord of the Rings", B&W version, where chaos is the norm. Please don't expect the kids to behave as in "Big Daddy" where the kid is bathed with swimming suit, or as in "Home Alone" cute boy and clown thieves, these 2 movies are far away from reality than some kids sleeping in the nude and running in the backyard in a summer hot night. "Home Alone" and Cement Garden" are two opposite movies coming from two different human minds performed by actors who were not harmed, one created for the children audience and North American people an the other to the European adult mature audience.