On Watching A Director's Previous Work: Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón is a Mexican director who is perhaps most known globally for being the director of the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, taking over for Chris Columbus, who had directed the film adaptations for the first two Harry Potter books.  Years ago, before the Azkaban adaptation came out in theatres, I decided to check out a few of Cuarón's other films, in order to get a feel for his work and get a possible idea of what he might do with the Harry Potter movie.

The movie I rented in order to accomplish this goal?  The Spanish-language dramedy Y tu mamá también.  And, well ... let's just say that Y tu mamá también is probably about as close to porn as a film can get without actually being porn.  You don't wanna be watching this film with anyone that you are uncomfortable watching VERY highly sexual scenes with.  Which is kind of a shocker when you're trying to look at it and keep in mind that the man who directed this is the same man directing the next Harry Potter film!  He also directed a film adaptation of "A Little Princess" as well, and to go between such extremes of material makes Cuarón kind of an interesting character to me.

Another upside to Y tu mamá también is that it introduced me to Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal -- who, I would say, are the Mexican approximation of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.  However, they are both far more talented, attractive, and gutsy than Damon and Affleck, and Y tu mamá también proves it.  I could NEVER picture Damon and Affleck doing some of the scenes that these two did, and it would be nice to see them both get a little bit more recognition Stateside.

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