Sunday, October 22, 2006

Movie Review - Sólo con tu pareja

Sólo con tu pareja (1991)
directed by Alfonso Cuarón
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults

Once again I'm left wondering why Criterion translates some titles and not others, and once again the repeat womanizer who finally falls in love just isn't the thematic powerhouse it never was. Oh sure, there's lots of deft and zany touches. There's the aerial photography of Mexico City and, of course, the pretty stewardess who likes to take her pretty hair down. But if there's anything original, it's the brief, grand illusion of airline flight as comfortable, carefree release. Nothing more.