Sólo Con Tu Pareja
| Sólo Con Tu Pareja | |
|---|---|
 Criterion Collection DVD cover | |
| 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 |
| Edited by |
Alfonso Cuarón Luis Patlán |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release dates | 1991 |
Running time | 94 minutes |
| Language | Spanish |
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 previously worked at Televisa, a Mexican television company. 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 Alfonso Cuarón and his brother Carlos Cuarón wrote the script, they needed to secure financing. 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, but Sólo Con Tu Pareja 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 this international recognition the movie was finally shown in 1993 in its country of origin where 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 Noche de Bodas by Carlos Cuarón and Cuarteto Para el Fin Del Tiempo (Alfonso Cuarón's first short, made when he was a film student in 1983).
Plot
Tomás Tomás (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is a young yuppie playboy and publicist. Silvia (Dobrina Liubomirova), a nurse 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 (Claudia Ramírez), a flight attendant, who is also trying to kill herself after finding out her fiance is having an affair.
Awards
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
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
- Jonás Cuarón as Kid at Wedding
External links
- Sólo Con Tu Pareja (Spanish) at the Cinema of Mexico page of the ITESM
- Criterion Collection essays by various authors
- Sólo Con Tu Pareja at the Internet Movie Database
- Sólo Con Tu Pareja at AllMovie
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