ALFONSO CUARÓN: A RETROSPECTIVE
Q&A with Dierdra Reber, Associate Professor of Latin American Culture at the University of Kentucky
"Y Tu Mamá También is the film that made me fall in love with Alfonso Cuaron."
—Anupama Chopra, Film Companion
The lives of Julio and Tenoch, like those of 17-year old boys everywhere, are ruled by raging hormones, intense friendships, and a headlong rush into adulthood. Over the course of a summer, the two best friends, while living out a carefree cross-country escapade with a gorgeous older woman, also find connection with each other, themselves and the world around them.
ABOUT DIERDRA REBER
Dierdra Reber is Associate Professor of Latin American Culture in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky. Reber is author of Coming to Our Senses: Affect and an Order of Things (Columbia University Press, 2016) and is working on a critical study of Alfonso Cuarón's full filmography, under contract with the University of Illinois Press Contemporary Film Directors Series, and a study in progress of affect, race, and Western empire. Reber's work situates film and media, and other narrative genres from literature to advertising, in the context of affect studies and broader Western philosophy over the 600-year period that comprises Western (neo)imperialism from the 1400s to the present.