WATCH PARTY: Y tu mamá también (2001) dir. Alfonso Cuarón @ Jordan Newby Library

Had no idea the great cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki was involved in this one. Learn something new every day.

We'll be in the Cloud Room on the 2nd floor of Jordan Newby Library.

RUNTIME: 106 minutes

SYNOPSIS (via Criterion.com): This smash road comedy from Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón is that rare movie to combine raunchy subject matter and emotional warmth. Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna shot to international stardom as a pair of horny Mexico City teenagers from different classes who, after their girlfriends jet off to Italy for the summer, are bewitched by a gorgeous older Spanish woman (Maribel Verdú) they meet at a wedding. When she agrees to accompany them on a trip to a faraway beach, the three form an increasingly intense and sensual alliance that ultimately strips them both physically and emotionally bare. Shot with elegance and dexterity by the great Emmanuel Lubezki, Y tu mamá también is a funny and moving look at human desire.

BLURBS:
"What originally appears to be a Mexican version of a raunchy teen sex comedy reveals itself to be not only the best foreign language film released this year, but also the best film, period." - Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press

"This glorious film locates its characters' buried feelings, puts their hedonism in historical context, speaks of Mexico's tragic past and glimpses its chancy but hopeful future." - Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

"Part travelogue, part road picture, part meditation on class, mortality and intimacy, this extraordinary little movie might be the perfect harbinger of summer, as astute as it is steamy." - Anne Hornaday, Washington Post