Y Tu Mama Tambien

I bought this one at a yard sale over the summer, having remembered that it got some good reviews. Plus I have a foreign film fetish, so even though it was on VHS, I bought it.

Whooo man, it is a goodie!

The story centers around 3 people, two best friends and one beautiful, slightly older, woman.

Just after high school, Tenoch and Jose's girlfriends head off to Europe for the summer and of course the boys are looking for some foot loose and fancy free fun- even though they made their girlfriend's promise fidelity.

At a huge, exclusive party hosted by Tenoch's Dad, they meet a lovely woman named Lousia who just happens to be married to Tenoch's jerk of a cousin. The boys fall for her in a cute puppyish way and they invite her to join them on a journey to secluded beach they dub Heaven's Mouth- a place they made up but they thoroughly expecting her to decline the invite.

Later, when Louisa's husband calls from Spain and drunkenly tells her he cheated on her, she takes the boys up on the offer.

Of course this story is not about the destination- which by the way they do find- it's about what happens along the way. And though you believe it's all about Tenoch and Jose learning a lesson, which it definitely is, what sticks with you- is Louisa.

This is a woman's movie-and not in a chick flick, mushy way. It's gritty, sexual and coarse. But the ending is so poignant I can't help but name this film among one of my all time favorites.

Tons of foreshadowing in this film, but it's all about really living.

Be warned: Lots of nudity and graphic themes in this film- male and female- and it is a Spanish film. But I highly recommend it. You won't be disappointed.

I will not try to add much to the other commenters who have already noted what a great film this is. I only want to suggest that everyone who watches this film sees the unrated version.

The rated 'R' version still includes lots of raunchy sex, but leaves out the most important 5 seconds in the entire film - a kiss between the two main male characters. This homoerotic tension coming out is just about the entire darn point of the film, and the rated 'R' version was compelled to leave it out. It is a sad commentary on the moral backwardness of our Hollywood rating system that 17-year olds are deemed fit to watch tons of hot, naked heterosexual sex but supposedly still aren't mature enough to see two men kissing on screen.

I bought the R rated version of this movie from Amazon after borrowing the film from my local Blockbuster in Australia. I loved the library copy enough to want to own a copy of my own - only to find that the American R certificate version had been so badly edited that the sense of the film had been lost. Yes, the original film is erotic and confronting; the American R certificate version leaves much of the nudity but deletes some crucial footage. For example, in the climactic scene at the beach once the long journey is over, the kiss between Julio and Tenoch ends up on the cutting room floor! Without this, the tension of the following scenes is inexplicable. Try to buy the original and enjoy the whole film. It's refreshingly different, sad and clever.

Very pleased with this order. Item arrived in new / good condition and the delivery was extremely prompt. I would absolutely purchase from this merchant again.
Very pleased, thank you.

Y Tu is basically a teenage `road' picture by Alfonso Cuarón, the director whose biggest previous film was the odd update of Great Expectations, with Gwyneth Paltrow, in the late 1990s. The film is about 2 Mexico City teens, Tenoch (Diego Luna) & Julio (Gael Bernal) who hook up with the cuckolded wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano, Luisa (Maribel Verdú). Basically, the 2 horny boys' girlfriends leave for Europe for the summer and after Luisa's husband confesses his infidelity she begs to go on a road trip with the boys, who are eager to take the 28 year old sexpot away to a mythic beach they have told her about.
The friends both end up screwing Luisa, then inflicting pain on each other by professing to have screwed each other's girlfriend. Luisa is about to leave them both when they promise they will do things her way. They stumble upon a beach, have some adventures, then get drunk one night with Luisa, are prepared to engage in a threesome, until Luisa simultaneously takes both of them in her mouth. This penile congress leads the two boys to a night of homosexuality without Luisa's presence. The next day one vomits over his debauchery, they leave Luisa at the beach, return to Mexico City, and part. 2 years later they meet at a café one last time, discuss the fact that Luisa died of cancer a month after their road trip, and never see each other again- Tenoch heading toward a life in the upper crust, while Julio goes off to community college.... I do get tired of critics who seem rapt by foreign films that mine the same material that Hollywood tripe does, with just as little success, yet somehow draw raves. Here's the only cogent piece of advice the film imparts, and its aimed only at the Tenoch-Julio demographic: Do not whack off too much or you will diminish your sexual continence. Thankfully I learnt that lesson before watching this film.