1 Oscar Nominations
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Cuarón's road movie earned near-universal admiration on release and has only grown in stature since — it routinely appears near the top of best-of-century lists. Critics agreed that the film works simultaneously as a freewheeling, sensual coming-of-age story and as a quietly devastating portrait of class, mortality, and a Mexico in transition, with the voiceover narration singled out as a key device that keeps undercutting the boys' bravado with something far darker underneath.
“Beneath the carefree road movie that the movie is happy to advertise is a more serious level—and below that, a dead serious level.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
Drama
DirectorAlfonso Cuarón
StarringMaribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Diana Bracho
1 Oscar Nominations
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Cuarón's road movie earned near-universal admiration on release and has only grown in stature since — it routinely appears near the top of best-of-century lists. Critics agreed that the film works simultaneously as a freewheeling, sensual coming-of-age story and as a quietly devastating portrait of class, mortality, and a Mexico in transition, with the voiceover narration singled out as a key device that keeps undercutting the boys' bravado with something far darker underneath.
“Beneath the carefree road movie that the movie is happy to advertise is a more serious level—and below that, a dead serious level.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
Drama
DirectorAlfonso Cuarón
StarringMaribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Diana Bracho
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