2 reviews
This movie is really beautiful and must be seen more than once . It's full of magic and hope when very dramatic at the same time. The action takes place during the Mexican Revolution and we follow an adolescent couple (Diego Luna) and Ana Claudia Talençon(El crimen del padre Amaro)in a traveling circus through the country. Ana plays a clandestine newspaper's manager's daughter who fights against the dictatorship,and after her father is murdered she joins the circus under cover with a mission: providing Madero with the necessary money to continue the fight. She meets Victor (Diego Luna)a traveling circus ill manager's son. Both they are determined to save their romance and assist the revolutionaries. In the same time, we can see the beginning of the motion picture in the country and the earliest movie camera created by the "Lumière" brothers which Victor (Diego Luna)finds so fascinating. This film must be seen by any Diego Luna's fan. He's so natural in his acting and so "cute"in these young years... a few years before "Y Tu Mama tambien"!
How come I can't get "Y tu mama también" out of my mind and the soundtrack out of my brain since I saw this movie? It has been a long time since I enjoyed a movie that much! I think it was since "Bridget Jones 's Diary"! OK, I have to confess that I am not an all time regular movies 's watcher, but I have seen a lot of movies tough and only a few touched me this much! Among the movies which have been succesful in touching me this way, for different mysterious reasons besides, I can count "The Graduate", "The Piano" by Jane Campion, "Bagdad Cafe" by Perry Adlon, "My Beautiful Laundrette" by Stefen Frears, "A Room With A View" and "Maurice" by James Ivory, "Tacanos lejanos" by Pedro Almodovar, "Pride And Prejudice" BBC miniseries by Andrew Davies, "Fever Pitch" by David Evans, "Priest" by Antonia Bird... I missed "Y tu mama también" when it was in french theaters during the year 2001, and I was able to watch it only a few days ago. And there we are! I can get this movie out of my mind! I like movies which are talking about life, realities of life and societies, about people everywhere in the world. I like movies which are giving me entertainment but I want to be given a little things to think about too. And I think "Y tu mama también" gave me all that. I love the way the movie was built, part as a fiction, part as a documentary. Even if my lack of knowledge about Mexican society's history didn't allow me (maybe)to understand as much about "the ins and the outs" of a contemporary Mexico , and even if I know this movie wasn't about an invitation given by the director to european tourists in order to discover "life in Mexico" nowadays, I think I got the message of the movie about life and his meaning, about the youg and his quests about commitment and being true to oneself, about realities of life...I enjoyed a lot being with Luisa, Julio and Tenoch (ah, Diego Luna!) and I was sad to let them go away at the end of the film when the sad but so beautiful music by Frank Zappa "Watermelon In Easter Hay" go on...But my dvd is at home now, and when I am in the mood for an other car-trip towards "El Bocca Del Cielo" the only thing I have to do is insert the disc in my computer 's dvd's drive... And I am already in the moon!