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Tomas is a very busy fellow and is about to grow much, much busier. He has his current girlfriend in bed in one apartment, and his lady boss in bed in the next one, and he is crossing from one to the other on a window ledge. Neither one has figured out what he is up to. His juggling act becomes much more complicated when, on one occasion from the ledge between the two apartments he spots his pretty new neighbor. It's only a matter of time before one or all of these women give him his richly
Unrated, 1 hr. 34 min.
Sep 9, 1991 Wide
Sep 20, 2006
IFC First Take
All Critics (11) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (6) | DVD (8)
First released in 1991, Alfonso Cuaron's Solo Con Tu Pareja (Only With Your Partner) is a manic puff of nonsense that plays off the AIDS panic of the preceding decade.
Solo Con Tu Pareja is not as mature as Y Tu Mama Tambien, but it is consistently funny.
Like Y Tu Mamá También, Alfonso Cuaróns first feature, made 15 years ago, is a rambunctious sex comedy shadowed by mortality.
Pushing the dull Cacho as a chick magnet capable of opening any pair of legs suggests that Cuarón's respect for women has gained serious ground since he was 29.
It is hard to fathom how such a talented artist could come up with such a painfully unfunny comedy.
a semi-successful attempt to update the screwball comedy in the era of AIDS and telenovelas
Cuaron demonstrates his capacity as a director. The camera work is impressive, his sense of humor sharp, and the characters are well defined.
Sets a tone for Cuaron's later work, including a warm, sensual use of colors and space.
Getting past the sheer unlikeability of the main character proves to be the film's most difficult point.
Cuaron, who cowrote the screenplay with his brother, Carlos, cited Ernst Lubitsch and Woody Allen as influences, but the shadow of Pedro Almodovar's frantic early comedies hangs heavily over the film's farcical complications.
The film is like a champagne bottle's ricocheting cork: an explosion of poppy camera maneuvers, literary allusions, chatty reiterations, raunchy sex, and spastic flights of fantasy rich in cultural flavor.
"Pick a peck of pickled pepper..."Young yuppie and womanizer Tomas (Gimenez Cacho) is caught in a trap when falsely diagnosed with AIDS by Silvia (Liubomirova), a nurse who finds herself cheated by the young Casanova.REVIEWTomas Tomas is an enthusiastic playboy adamant about not using condoms. When a scorned
February 13, 2010
Super Reviewer
Good dark comedy. Alfonso Cuarón's first film shows raw talent, that he would later polish in the awesome Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN and the masterpiece CHILDREN OF MEN. The script is sharp and very funny, presenting a great original story. The camera work is impressive, as well as the exterior shots. Daniel Giménez Cacho, one
September 27, 2008Super Reviewer
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