1991 | Mexico | Fiction

Sólo con tu pareja (Love in the Time of Hysteria)

  • Spanish 94 mins
  • Director | Alfonso Cuarón
  • Writer | Carlos Cuarón
  • Producer | Rosalia Salazar, Alfonso Cuarón

STATUS: Released

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Before Alfonso Cuarón helmed the international sensation Y tu mamá también, he made his mark on Mexican cinema with the ribald and lightning-quick contemporary social satire Sólo con tu pareja. Don Juan–ish yuppie Tomás Tomás (Daniel Giménez Cacho, from Bad Education) spends his nights juggling so many beautiful women that he can’t keep their names straight—until one of his many conquests, a spurned nurse, gives him a taste of his own medicine. Beautifully filmed in widescreen by the inimitable Emmanuel Lubezki (The New World), Cuarón’s wildly successful feature debut (which has never been released in the U.S.) gave voice to a Mexican middle-class that had remained largely unseen onscreen, and surveys contemporary urban sexual mores with style to spare.

Infidelity Redemption Comedy Mortality Satire
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The Criterion Collection
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