Feature film
Love in the Time of Hysteria
Sólo con tu pareja
Alfonso Cuarón · 1991
Synopsis
Tomás Tomás, a Mexico City advertising man and seducer, is carrying on several conquests at once. Silvia, a nurse he has neglected, takes revenge by falsifying his test results: he believes he has AIDS. Distraught, he runs into Clarisa Negrete, a flight attendant and his neighbour, who is also at the end of her tether, and the two think of ending it all.
Context
Financed by the Mexican Film Institute after the cancellation of another project, the film is written by the brothers Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón and photographed by Emmanuel Lubezki. It brings together Daniel Giménez Cacho (Tomás), Claudia Ramírez (Clarisa), Luis de Icaza and Dobrina Liubomirova. Presented on 25 December 1991, it met with the government's refusal to distribute it, circulated at foreign festivals and did not reach cinemas in Mexico until 1993. Criterion issued it in 2006, in a restoration supervised by Lubezki.
Who it is for
A brisk comedy of one hour thirty-four minutes, in Spanish, whose subject, AIDS, was new on screen at the time.
Prizes and reception
Ariel for best original screenplay and a prize at the Toronto festival; a public success in Mexico, its author's first feature film.
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