Solo Con Tu Pareja (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]

The years have not passed by this film. True, the reality in Mexico City's everyday life is way worse than then but this movie does not feel nostalgic either. The acting is very good, the story line is better and the photography is the best. The music score is amazingly well integrated into the movie. It is not easy to have Mozart music on a 90's sex comedy set in Mexico City. However it works well, very well.My memories of this movie are always of Claudia Ramirez and Mozart's Gran Partita.I would say that this movie stands a bit apart from all other Cuaron films. It is set in Mexico about Mexican midclass pleople and it has a freshness not found in all his other movies, which, I agree, have some other and even more important virtues as well.

In his madcap debut film, the Mexican director of "Y Tu Mama Tambien" somehow fuses a bawdy farce in the grand Hollywood tradition with a modern commentary on HIV and mortality--and makes it work. What begins as a room-to-room sex romp--with Tomás clambering along catwalks between his apartment and that of his friend Mateo (Luis de Icaza), who's helping out in the seduction game--soon takes a sobering turn as the bird-dogging bachelor finds himself wrapped in the arms of both love and death. Assured and lively, fluidly paced and buoyantly acted, "Solo con tu pareja" is a slapstick comedy with a zesty Latin heart.

I remember seeing this movie back when it was just released thinking it was quite funny and innovative.Years later, I just seen again and although I find it a little naïve and more mainstream than the first time, I daresay it is worth it. The Japanese businessmen are really funny!

it failed to retain any of our attention. Too predictable of a story, no surprising element. Too tainted with latin telenovela melodrama. Acting not the best. Disappointing for an IFC movie. We expected better.

This movie is very funny, but if you don't speak Spanish you probably won't understand most of the humor from the subtitles; and even if you do speak Spanish but don't know Mexican slang and the chilango accent and sense of humor you will be missing most of the irony and double entendre. This film is much cleverer than the 'screwball comedy' that critics like to call it.

Super funny! The initial back and forth on the ledge got a little tedious but stick with it because it's funny!

Funny and entertaining romantic comedy

Enjoyed it very much, PAC