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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2023
Cast
Julio Zapata, played by Gael García Bernal
Tenoch Iturbide, played by Diego Luna
Luisa Cortés, played by Maribel Verdú
Ana Morelos, played by Ana López Morelos
Alejandro ‘Jano’ Montes de Oca, played by Juan Carlos Remolina
Manuel Huerta, played by Nathan Grinberg
María Eugenia Calles de Huerta, played by Verónica Langer
Cecilia Huerta, played by María Aura
Nicole Bazaine, played by Giselle Audirac
Esteban Morelos, played by Arturo Ríos
Diego ‘Saba’ Madero, played by Andrés Almedia
Silvia Allende de Iturbide, played by Diana Bracho
Miguel Iturbide, played by Emilio Echeverría
Enriqueta ‘Queta’ Allende, played by Marta Aura
Leodegaria ‘Leo’Victoria, played by Liboria Rodríguez
Crew
Casting: Manuel Teil
Costume Designer: Gabriela Diaque
Music Supervisor: Liza Richardson, Annette Fradera
Edited by: Alfonso Cuarón, Alex Rodríguez
Art Director: Miguel Álvarez
Line Producer: Sandra Solares
Director of Photography: Emmanuel Lubezki
Executive Producers: Sergio Agüero, David Linde, Amty Kaufman
Producer: Jorge Vergara
Screenplay: Carlos Cuarón
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Awards
Winner, Mastroianni Award, Venice Film Festival, 2001
Winner, Best Screenplay awarded to Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón, Venice Film Festival, 2001
Best New Actors awarded to Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, Venice Film Festival, 2001
Nominee, Hollywood Oscars
Nominee, Best film not in the English language, BAFTA, 2003
Plot
The film opens with the scene of Julio and Ana making love. (It is only later that we realise that Julio is making love not to his girlfriend but his best friend’s girlfriend.) Since Ana is going to Italy, Julio makes her promise that she will not sleep with any foreign men while there. Julio is then seen at Cecilia’s house, and he has sex with her hurriedly before he goes to see her off at the airport. Julio and Tenoch bid farewell to their respective girlfriends (Cecilia and Ana) at the airport. The voice-over explains the background of the main characters, the career of their parents, and so on. Before each sound-over we hear a short silent pause, announcing its appearance. Julio and his friend, Tenoch, are driving in the car, and they hit a traffic jam caused, the voice-over informs us, by the death of a building worker, Marcelino Escutia, in a car crash. Julio and Tenoch attend a wedding where they meet Tenoch’s cousin, Jano, who is a writer and married to Luisa, whom they invite to the beach called Boca del Cielo (Heaven’s Mouth).
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