Before Alfonso Cuarón helmed the international sensation Y tu mamá también, he made his mark on Mexican cinema with the ribald and lightning-quick contemporary social satire Sólo con tu pareja. Don Juan–ish yuppie Tomás Tomás (Daniel Giménez Cacho, from Bad Education) spends his nights juggling so many beautiful women that he can’t keep their names straight—until one of his many conquests, a spurned nurse, gives him a taste of his own medicine. Beautifully filmed in widescreen by the inimitable Emmanuel Lubezki (The New World), Cuarón’s wildly successful feature debut (which has never been released in the U.S.) gave voice to a Mexican middle-class that had remained largely unseen onscreen, and surveys contemporary urban sexual mores with style to spare.
Cast
| Tomás Tomás | Daniel Giménez Cacho |
| Clarisa Negrete | Claudia Ramirez |
| Mateo Mateos | Luis de Icaza |
| Teresa de Teresa | Astrid Hadad |
| Silvia Silva | Dobrina Liubomirova |
| Carlos | Ricardo Dalmacci |
| Lucia | Claudia Fernandez |
Credits
| Director | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Producer | Rosalia Salazar and Alfonso Cuarón |
| Screenwriter | Carlos Cuarón |
| Cinematography | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| Editing | Alfonso Cuarón and Luis Patlin |
| Sound | José Antonio Garcia |
| Music | Carlos Warman |
| Production supervisor | Miguel Necoechea |
| Costume design | Maria Estela Fernandez |
| Production Design | Brigitte Broch |
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki
- Making “Sólo con tu pareja”, a collection of new video interviews with Cuarón, screenwriter Carlos Cuarón, and actor Daniel Giménez Cacho
- Short films by Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: A booklet featuring a new essay by Ryan F. Long, and a “biography” of Tomás Tomás, written by Carlos Cuarón
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