Y Tu Mama Tambien

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/]

The Gist:
Two young, immature, adolescent boys who are obsessed with sex go on a road trip with a young woman named Luisa. They are trying to get to the ocean but secretly the two have no idea where they're going. The trip also seems to be an excuse to try and sleep with Luisa, though you get the feeling that neither of them would really have the courage to try and seduce her. What you would think would soon follow is your basic roadtrip breakdown, a liminal experience transitioning into adulthood, thick with nostalgia of lost youth and innocence. And the audience does get that to a point. However, the film deviates from this in a couple important ways. For one, its fixation with all this sexuality with its characters seems almost meaningless at first. However, once Luisa has sex with one boy and then the other,the film plays into this immaturity perfectly, revealing stark insecurities. What follows is an incredible, bizarre film that has one of the strangest twists on the iconic Annie Hall ending that I've ever seen. Also you have strange voiceovers reminiscent of something out of French New Wave, like Band of Outsiders maybe. Along with this is Cuaron's incredibly expressive camera work that I am personally obsessed with. His films seem to make the camera feel like another character. In fact, the cinematography breathed life into a vaguely sluggish opening act when the film hadn't revealed yet what it wanted to be. As soon as it did so, it became very poignant. However, I still felt like I was being dragged along for no reason up until then.