幼なじみのフリオとテノッチは17歳の高校生。溢れるエネルギーを持て余し気味の二人が考えることといえばセックスのことばかり。ところが、肝心のガールフレンドたちは旅行に出かけてしまい、せっかくの夏を何をするでもなく過ごしていた。そんなある日、親戚の結婚式で二人は年上の女性ルイサと知り合う。彼女をドライブに誘うためダメもとで“天国の口”という在りもしないビーチの名を口にする二人。ところが、数日後、夫の浮気を知ったルイサはテノッチに一緒にドライブ旅行に行くと告げる。慌てる二人だったが、チャンスとばかりルイサを連れアテのない旅に出るのだった……。
製作費: $5,000,000 (8億円)
興行収入: $33,600,000 (50億円)
推定収支: $28,600,000 (43億円)
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監督: アルフォンソ・キュアロン
脚本: アルフォンソ・キュアロン / Carlos Cuarón
制作: アルフォンソ・キュアロン / Jorge Vergara / Sergio Aguero
撮影監督: Emmanuel Lubezki
While recently watching "Blue Is the Warmest Color," I was reminded of this film, and like "Blue," I was drawn to how the film's central relationship between Tenoch and Julio felt both astoundingly ecstatic and yet isolating, especially when it ends. It's as if the passions from their road trip to Heaven's Mouth burned too brightly to be sustained once they returned to their normal lives. I first looked at this film as a coming-of-age film, albeit one that happened to include sex scenes much more graphic than others of its genre. That opinion helps me find a reflective starting point for this film, but every time I watch it, I think more and more about the socioeconomic points Cuarón interjects throughout. I think more about how little I know about other countries, especially the one just south of my own. (I suppose Tenoch and Julio don't know that much either.) After this last viewing, I thought more about whether the the two actually learned something positive from the experience. We're told they never meet again after the film ends. What happens next? And how does this trip I witnessed mean to that answer?
