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movie review - Y Tu Mama Tambien

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is kinky Mexican flick (the English title would be 'And your mother, too') about a 30-something woman and two teenage boys who go on a road trip. It was greeted with a great deal of hoopla, as certain films seem to be, and while I don't think it deserved all the fanfare, this is an interesting flick.

The film seems - while you're watching it - to be about the dismally venal boys, but morphs into something else. The sex is omnipresent and hasty and fully frontal. The plot surprises more from its obfuscated nature than in anything that develops in the movie. As with any film where you don't really know what's going on, this means you have to approach it with a good deal of patience. But it pays off, here.

Strongly recommended.