I'm a huge Cuarón fan, but I had never heard of this movie before Criterion picked up the rights to it. I had actually always assumed that Cuarón had been in television before his excellent family movie, The Little Princess. But this movie is quite in line with Y Tu Mama Tambien, his best film, which similarly dealt with the consequences of sex but in a very different way.
This film is a comedy, sometimes a little too broad in the Mexican way (which is similar to the French way comedies can be a little too broad), but also sometimes brilliantly surreal and dark. It deals with AIDS in a comedic way, which must have seemed quite risqué in 1991, and features a dream sequence which is pretty funny and an ending that is emotionally satisfying (plus a couple of tower shots that remind me of the end of Babel).
Overall, not his best movie, but a movie worth bigger exposure, which is what Criterion is all about.
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