In Bernardo Britto’s slyly funny, disarmingly poignant hand-drawn animated short YEARBOOK, an ordinary man finds himself charged with a most extraordinary task: cataloguing, for posterity, all the important figures in human history before aliens blow up the world. So . . . does Cat Stevens make the cut? With its canny use of voice-over narration, it makes for a bittersweet companion to Alfonso Cuarón’s sexy, hilarious coming-of-age road movie Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIEN, which similarly finds both human warmth and melancholy in another kind of ending: the heady final days of carefree youth.
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón • 2001 • Mexico
Starring Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna
This smash road comedy from Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón is that rare movie to combine raunchy subject matter and emotional warmth. Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna shot to internationa...