Y Tu Mama Tambien (subtitles)

        This film begins with scenes of quickie athletic sex by some just barely adults.  It was a trick like the loud chords that Beethoven used in his compositions to get his audience's attention.  Not that this is a classic, but it was in the end, a thought provoking film.  Unfortunately, the initial scenes could have the opposite effect, i.e. walk away instead of watching.  But some reviewers picked it for their 2002 top ten, so I watched.

        The primary characters are two boys, Tenoch played by Diego Luna and Julio played by Gael Garcia Bernal, and the 'older woman', Luisa played by Maribel Verdu.  Luisa is married and about ten years older than the boys who play roles as affluent 18-year-olds about to go off to college.  Everyone is older in real life, but the age difference is the about the same.

        The boys do a good job of convincing you they are 18 - scatological humor, obsessed about sex - sort of a fraternity party on a road trip.  Luisa's life is in change and you don't know how much change until the end of the film.  In the beginning it seems the boys are using her, but the reverse is really true.  And she is also managing her relationship with her husband by phone, hence the title, And Your Mother Too. 

        The story line begins as an escape and turns into a process.  It reaches a turning point when Luisa gets fed-up with the boy's dogfight approach to their triad relationship.

        This film has nice camera work, simple household scenes of a maid climbing stairs, the protagonists getting in a car shot from the top of a three story building, gorgeous beaches, sunsets and the explicit sex scenes.  The camera also captures the feel of Mexico, its landscape, its villages and its people.  The story line progresses with sex the goal, but also with counterpoint narration along the way of real life tragedies on the sidelines. These foreshadowing narrations pepper you with a newscast like basso profundo voice over as you watch. 

        If you are okay with explicit sex and subtitles, it's a film I can recommend you watch.