This film, in hindsight, is just as strange as it was when watching it.
My personal opinion about the film, is that while the Mexican culture is more open to the topic of sex, Y Tu Mama Tambien is still a “porno.”
Personally, I was also a bit offended that THAT film was the film chosen to represent Mexican culture and Mexican cinema. I am quite shocked that there was no other film that could better represent Mexico, that could better get across the “themes” that were supposed to be attained from watching the film.
On a listing of Top Ranked Films from Brazil and Mexico from The World’s Best Films on http://worldsbestfilms.blogspot.com/2009/09/top-ranked-films-from-brazil-and-mexico.html the Mexico films rank Pan’s Labyrinth as the best film from Mexico with international appeal. Los Olvidados is ranked second, and the Exterminating Angel is ranked third. Y Tu Mama Tambien is ranked at number four of the best films from Mexico.
On Wikipedia.org under Films Considered the Greatest Ever, El Callejon de los Milagros is the “most awarded film in Mexican history with 49 international awards. Pan’s Labyrinth appears again as the highest rated Mexican film.
Another site, http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Films_considered_the_greatest_ever, refers the greatest film in recent times in the cinema of Mexico is La Ley de Herodes, or Herod’s Law. This film was also paired in excellence with Pan’s Labyrinth.
In Sergio de la Mora’s Top 10 Mexican Films, the highest ranked is El Violin by Francisco Vargas, with Ernesto Contreras’ Parpados Azules in second. Y Tu Mama Tambien is not even mentioned in this recent listing.
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