Having always lived in Chile, Iquela and Felipe provide the alternate narratives throughout the novel. When Iquela first lays eyes on Paloma when they’re both young girls, her reaction is powerful: “Standing stock still, eyes boring into her white espadrilles, hands buried inside her faded jean pockets and a pair of headphones covering her ears - that’s all it took, she had me.” Maintaining the pattern in each, two of the characters grew up together, and two of the characters met just once before, in another era, setting the stage for both old jealousy and new desire.

Like Y Tu Mamá También, The Remainder features three tortured souls sweating together in a small car. The Remainder features Santiago natives Iquela and Felipe escorting their family friend Paloma to collect and repatriate her mother’s dead body. Road trip stories combine the pleasure of momentum with the heat of containment, and these two stories are fueled by desire as well as disaffection as they unpack the fraught history of a place. “Sure, and I have a right to tell them to fuck off.”įollowing in the spirit of Y Tu Mama También, the Chilean novel The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán (a finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, translated by Sophie Hughes) is a road trip narrative that finds electric circumstances with a young trio in a car.

“They have a right to protest, Charolastra,” Tenoch answers. “I bet my sister’s in another demonstration,” Julio says, honking the horn. In an early scene, Julio is stuck sweating in a car with Tenoch in Mexico City traffic: While the narrative is pushed forward by more shameless concerns than politics and history, the movie semi-regularly lingers over the Mexico milieu of police traffic stops and discriminating oppression, the prosperity of the few leaving so many behind. The explicit driving forces in the story - sex, escape, an invented dream beach - propel the characters across a backdrop of national unrest that mirrors the split in each of their lives: between wealth and working class, cheating and fidelity, disillusionment and fervor. ALFONSO CUARÓN’S 2001 MOVIE Y Tu Mamá También features two young Mexican men who throb with lust and impatience and so initiate a road trip with one of their cousins-by-marriage from Spain.

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