{"product_id":"y-tu-mam-tambin-9781839025204","title":"Y Tu Mamá También","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eY Tu Mamá También \u003c\/i\u003e(2001)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ean intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón 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 García Bernal and Diego Luna went on to be major stars of global cinema. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYet on its release the film was vilified by established Mexican critics as a coarse comedy and '\u003ci\u003ePenthouse\u003c\/i\u003e fantasy' of youthful lust for an older woman. Paul Julian Smith's lucid study of the film argues that \u003ci\u003eY Tu Mamá También\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSmith suggests \u003ci\u003eY Tu Mamá También\u003c\/i\u003e remains an example for world cinema of how a very local film can connect with a global audience that is ignorant of such niceties. Combining production and distribution history, based on unexplored material held in Mexico City archives, with close textual analysis, Smith makes an argument for Cuarón's film as an enduring masterpiece that hides in plain sight as an ephemeral teen movie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e British Film Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839025204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs","brand":"Paul Julian Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42451341508789,"sku":"9781839025204","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_279c865c-0fc6-4096-b4ec-a19ce70e95e2.jpg?v=1666107345","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/y-tu-mam-tambin-9781839025204","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}