In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
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Film Cast:
- Julio Zapata: Gael García Bernal
- Tenoch Iturbide: Diego Luna
- Luisa Cortés: Maribel Verdú
- Narrator (voice): Daniel Giménez Cacho
- Silvia Allende de Iturbide: Diana Bracho
- María Eugenia Calles de Huerta: Verónica Langer
- Cecilia Huerta: María Aura
- Miguel Iturbide: Emilio Echevarría
- Enriqueta ‘Queta’ Allende: Marta Aura
- Jesús ‘Chuy’ Carranza: Silverio Palacios
- Ana Morelos: Ana López Mercado
- Diego ‘Saba’ Madero: Andrés Almeida
- Manuel Huerta: Nathan Grinberg
- Nicole Bazaine: Giselle Audirac
- Esteban Morelos: Arturo Ríos
- Alejandro ‘Jano’ Montes de Oca: Juan Carlos Remolina
- Leodegaria ‘Leo’ Victoria: Liboria Rodríguez
- Mabel Juárez de Carranza: Mayra Serbulo
- Christian Carranza: Amaury Sérbulo
- Lucero Carranza: Andrea López
- President: Jorge Vergara
Film Crew:
- Thanks: Steve Golin
- Thanks: Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Director of Photography: Emmanuel Lubezki
- Thanks: Ted Hope
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Skip Lievsay
- Producer: Alfonso Cuarón
- Screenplay: Carlos Cuarón
- Production Sound Mixer: José Antonio García
- Music Supervisor: Liza Richardson
- Producer: Jorge Vergara
- Thanks: Guillermo del Toro
- Editor: Alex Rodríguez
- Thanks: Fernando Trueba
- Executive Producer: Sergio Aguero
- Executive Producer: David Linde
- Thanks: Timothy J. Sexton
- Executive Producer: Amy Kaufman
- Foley Artist: Marko Costanzo
- ADR Editor: Marissa Littlefield
- Sound Effects Editor: Blake Leyh
- Thanks: Simón Bross
- Thanks: Miho Hatori
- Construction Manager: Alfonso Rojas
- Thanks: Enrique Bunbury
- Casting: Manuel Teil
- Thanks: Jonás Cuarón
- Costume Design: Gabriela Diaque
- Unit Production Manager: Eamon O’Farrill
- Thanks: Raúl Olvera Ferrer
- Assistant Editor: Jennifer Ruff
- Negative Cutter: Noëlle Penraat
- Sound Designer: Ruy García
- Sound Editor: Frank Kern
- Assistant Editor: David Gray
- Sound Supervisor: Philip Stockton
- Line Producer: Sandra Solares
- Music Supervisor: Annette Fradera
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Fleischman
- ADR Editor: Hal Levinsohn
- Sound Recordist: Jesse Ehredt
- Hairstylist: Carlos Sánchez
- Title Designer: Gonzálo García Barcha
- Art Direction: Diana Quiroz
- Boom Operator: Felipe Zavala
- Production Supervisor: Marc Bèdia
- Script Supervisor: Maury Carvajal
- Special Effects: Salvador Servín
- Additional Editor: Manuel Billeter
- Art Direction: Miguel Ángel Álvarez
- Colorist: Bryan McMahan
- Assistant Sound Editor: Debora Lilavois
- Animal Wrangler: Rocío Ortega
- Assistant Director: Manuel Hinojosa
- Special Effects: Alex Vázquez
- Art Direction: Guillermo Cossío
- Assistant Director: Berenice Manjarrez Vericat
- Sound: Michael Holmstrom
- Production Executive: Kelly Miller
- Sound Mix Technician: Phillip Fuller
- Sound Assistant: Hugo Noriega Valencia
- Thanks: Dean Lyras
- Digital Colorist: Kathy Thomson
- Music Coordinator: Camilo Lara
- Thanks: Henry W. Holmes Jr.
- Music Editor: Sue Shufro
- Set Decoration: Roberto Loera
- Unit Manager: Dante Aguilar
- Production Supervisor: Keary Jenkins
- Assistant Director: Fernanda Arce
- Construction Manager: Carlos Hernández
- Property Master: Mily Moreno
- Music Coordinator: José Enrique Fernández
- Thanks: Steve Rabineau
- Post Production Supervisor: Jeff Rath
- Assistant Editor: Silvia Garza Bermúdez
- Assistant Editor: James Nichols Jr.
- Assistant Editor: Mario Ontal
- Extras Casting Coordinator: César González
- Extras Casting Coordinator: Natalia Pollak
- Extras Casting Coordinator: Oscar González
- Apprentice Sound Editor: Lila Yomtoob
- Art Department Coordinator: Maria Carolina Larrosa
Movie Reviews:
- kineticandroid: While recently watching “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” I was reminded of this film, and like “Blue,” I was drawn to how the film’s central relationship between Tenoch and Julio felt both astoundingly ecstatic and yet isolating, especially when it ends. It’s as if the passions from their road trip to Heaven’s Mouth burned too brightly to be sustained once they returned to their normal lives. I first looked at this film as a coming-of-age film, albeit one that happened to include sex scenes much more graphic than others of its genre. That opinion helps me find a reflective starting point for this film, but every time I watch it, I think more and more about the socioeconomic points Cuarón interjects throughout. I think more about how little I know about other countries, especially the one just south of my own. (I suppose Tenoch and Julio don’t know that much either.) After this last viewing, I thought more about whether the the two actually learned something positive from the experience. We’re told they never meet again after the film ends. What happens next? And how does this trip I witnessed mean to that answer?