Alfonso Cuaron - Solo con tu pareja AKA Love in the Time of Hysteria [+Extras] (1991) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102958 /> Language Spanish Subtitles English sub/idx http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5132WQVMRSL.jpg /> The hero of Alfonso Cuarón’s “Sólo Con Tu Pareja” is Tomás Tomás (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a young man living alone in a roomy Mexico City apartment with a tedious job writing advertising copy and a hyperactive romantic life. Apparently and perhaps not quite plausibly irresistible to women, he is also unable to resist them, which is believable enough, since the women in this movie favor garter belts, half-slips and other kinds of retro-sexy lingerie, which they seem happy to display, or to remove, in Tomás’s presence. Mr. Cuarón made this film, his first feature, 15 years ago, before departing Mexico for Hollywood and making “A Little Princess” and “Great Expectations,” returning home for “Y Tu Mamá También” and then coming back to direct “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” This zigzagging has made him an intriguing and in some ways exemplary figure in contemporary world cinema, and the movies themselves show remarkable exuberance and versatility. All of which partly justifies the belated release (simultaneously in theaters and on DVD) of “Sólo Con Tu Pareja,” a lively calling card from a young, ambitious director working with limited funds and a screenplay he wrote with his brother Carlos. Like “Y Tu Mamá También,” “Sólo Con Tu Pareja” — literally, “Only With Your Partner” — is a rambunctious sex comedy shadowed by mortality. Tomás is hardly a smooth-talking lady-killer; rather, he uses a combination of boyish sweetness and neurotic, puppylike eagerness as his main tools of seduction. He is a little too successful, enticing a nurse (Dobrina Liubomirova) into his bed while his randy boss, Gloria (Isabel Benet), is waiting for him across the hall. Tomás has lured her into the apartment he has borrowed from a friend, Mateo (Luis de Icaza). As Tomás races back and forth along the window ledge, the movie has the breezy insouciance of a classic bedroom farce. But the lighthearted mood is disrupted by the possibility of true love — incarnated in a new neighbor (Claudia Ramírez), who lives between Tomás and Mateo and who has a fiancé — and also by the specter of death. The nurse, feeling spurned and neglected, plays a cruel prank on Tomás, altering blood test results to suggest that he is H.I.V.-positive. This leads to some anguished soul-searching and also, rather improbably, to a madcap chase that ends on the observation deck of the Latin American Tower, Mexico City’s answer to the Empire State Building. Mr. Cuarón never quite finds the tone that would allow him to fuse belly laughs with the horror of illness and death, but then perhaps Pedro Almodóvar is the only filmmaker able to mix darkness and light in that way. Still it is hard not to admire the younger man’s cheeky self-confidence, and hard not to enjoy the dexterity of his camera movements and the flair with which he attempts both low comedy and high melodrama. The promise he showed in “Sólo Con Tu Pareja” has already been realized and exceeded, but there is something gratifying about witnessing such talent in its fledgling state. http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/muffy_kitteh/Clipboard01-15.png /> http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/muffy_kitteh/Clipboard02-14.png /> http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/muffy_kitteh/Clipboard03-15.png /> http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/muffy_kitteh/Clipboard04-15.png /> http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/muffy_kitteh/Clipboard05-13.png /> http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/muffy_kitteh/Clipboard06-9.png /> Though Sólo Con Tu Pareja would achieve considerable acclaim on the international circuit and help launch Alfono Cuarón's Hollywood career, it's taken the filmmaker's feature-length debut more than a decade to travel north of the border. Banned for many years in Mexico, the film filters the sexual agency and paranoia of its characters through a telenovela scrim, bringing to mind the baroque effervescence of Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen, only with a more vital social framework. The film's English title, Love in the Time of Hysteria—a tribute to Gabriel García Marquez's magical realist masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera—emphasizes Cuarón's desire to study how sexual behavior is shaped by the times, in this case the rising AIDS crisis. This bawdy comedy's tour-de-force is a prolonged sequence during which a very busy lothario, Tomás Tomás (Daniel Giménez Cacho), scales the exterior of his apartment in order to bed two different women, singing a nursery rhyme to keep his balance only to be distracted by the beautiful flight attendant who's just moved into the residence nestled between his bachelor pad and his doctor-friend's apartment. When one of the women, Silvia (Dobrina Liubomirova), learns that she's been played for a fool, she fudges the man's medical results to indicate that he's HIV-positive, which leads the man down a staccato road toward suicide. The film is like a champagne bottle's ricocheting cork—an explosion of poppy camera maneuvers, literary allusions, chatty reiterations, raunchy sex, and spastic flights of fantasy rich in cultural flavor (one of the man's nightmares accommodates a Lucha Libre fighter and a bullfighting castrati). Cuarón sustains the fizziness throughout, evoking one of those randy Euro-trash commercials that are too hot for American television. A little one-note perhaps, but consistently funny and sexy. ---my rip----- ~~~~~~ Solo con tu pareja.avi ~~~~~~ File Size (in bytes):...........................1,334,374,400 --- Video Information --- Video Codec Name:...............................XviD ISO MPEG-4 Duration (hh:mm:ss):............................1:34:20 Frame Count:....................................135684 Frame Width (pixels):...........................688 Frame Height (pixels):..........................384 Aspect Ratio:...................................1.792 Frames Per Second:..............................23.976 Video Bitrate (kbps):...........................1684 ......MPEG-4......B-VOP........................ 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