Sólo con tu pareja
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| Sólo con tu pareja | |
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| Directed by | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Produced by | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Written by | Carlos Cuarón & Alfonso Cuarón |
| Starring | Daniel Giménez Cacho Claudia Ramírez |
| Music by | Carlos Warman |
| Cinematography | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| Editing by | Alfonso Cuarón Luis Patlán |
| Release date(s) | 1991 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Language | Spanish |
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Sólo con tu pareja (literally "Only with your partner", released in English-speaking markets as Love in the Time of Hysteria) is a 1991 Mexican film by Alfonso Cuarón.
This was the first full-feature film for Cuarón, who had before worked on television with Televisa. The stars of this film are Daniel Giménez Cacho (the narrator on Cuarón's second Mexican film Y tu mamá también) and telenovela star Claudia Ramírez.
After the Cuarón brothers wrote the script, they needed to secure financing for this film. The government of Mexico's IMCINE (Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía) had already decided what films they would finance that year. Fortunately for the Cuaróns, one of the projects was canceled and the IMCINE funds were assigned to Sólo con tu pareja.
After the film was completed, the Mexican government refused to distribute it in Mexico, but it was presented at several international festivals. It won awards at the Ariel Awards (by the Mexican Academy of Film) and at the Toronto Film Festival. After its international success the movie was finally shown in 1993 in its country of origin were it became a box-office success. It occupies the 87th place on the list of the 100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico.
In 2006, Criterion Collection released Sólo con tu pareja in DVD (Region 1), with a new remastered transfer and with the shorts Carlos Cuarón's Noche de bodas and Cuarteto para el fin del tiempo (Alfonso's first short, made when he was a film student in 1983)
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[edit] Awards
[edit] Ariel Award in 1992
- Best Original Story Alfonso Cuarón & Carlos Cuarón
Also nominated for:
- Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki
- Best First Work Alfonso Cuarón
- Best Screenplay Alfonso Cuarón & Carlos Cuarón
[edit] Cast
- Daniel Giménez Cacho as Tomás Tomás
- Claudia Ramírez as Clarisa Negrete
- Luis de Icaza as doctor Mateo Mateos
- Dobrina Liubomirova as Silvia Silva
- Astrid Hadad as Teresa de Teresa
- Isabel Benet as Gloria Gold
- Toshirô Hisaki as Takeshi
- Carlos Nakasone as Koyi
- Ricardo Dalmacci as Carlos
- Claudia Fernández as Lucía
- Luz María Jerez as Paola
- Nevil Wilton as Pasmal
- John Keys as Absolut Boozer
- Raúl Valerio as guard at the Torre Latinoamericana
- Montserrat Ontiveros as Mrs. Panza
- Regina Orozco as Mrs. Dolores
- Rodolfo Arias as Hernán Cortés on the commercial for "Jalapeños Caseros Gómez"
- Víctor Carpinteiro as Montezuma on the commercial for "Jalapeños Caseros Gómez"
- Claudette Maillé as la Burbus
- Ariel López Padilla as Burbus' boyfriend
- Marcos Mohar as boy at the elevator
- Jiussana Briseño as Nancy of Continental Airlines
- Arturo Ríos as contratenor in a dream about the Mexicana de Aviación plane
- Adriana Olivera as voice of the beeper operator
[edit] Plot
Tomás Tomás (Giménez Cacho) is a yuppie and playboy, and a young publicist. Silvia (Liubomirova), the victim of one of his adventures, tries to get back at him by typing "positive" on his AIDS test. Tomás, trying to end his life, meets Clarissa (Ramírez), a flight attendant, who is also trying to kill herself after finding out her boyfriend is having an affair.
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Sólo con tu pareja at the Cinema of Mexico page of the ITESM
- Alfonso Cuarón at the Internet Movie Database
- Criterion Collection essays by various authors
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