Y Tu Mama Tambien

Y Tu Mam-ambi-(2001), an intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuar-n and co-written by him and his brother Carlos, is both an acclaimed feature by a director who would go on to win Oscars and a box office success abroad and in its native Mexico, where it was the biggest grossing local film of all time. Its teenage protagonists Gael Garc-Bernal and Diego Luna went on to be major stars of global cinema. Yet on its release the film was vilified by established Mexican critics as a coarse comedy and -Penthouse fantasy- of youthful lust for an older woman. Paul Julian Smith''s lucid study of the film argues that Y Tu Mam-ambi-/i> not only addresses with playful seriousness such major issues as gender, race, class, and space, which are yet more urgent now than they were on its release; but that the film-s apparently casual aesthetic masks a sophisticated audiovisual style, one which brings together popular genre film and auteurist experiment. Smith su