REVIEW: Rudo y Cursi (Cert 15)
AFTER forging an international career with the likes of Motorcycle Diaries and Babel, Mexican star Gael Garcia Bernal has returned home and hooked up again with his childhood buddy, Diego Luna, on Rudo y Cursi (Cert 15).
The pair co-starred, of course, in Y Tu Mama Tambien and here they are also re-united with the writer of that breakthrough movie, Carlos Cuaron, now making his debut as director.
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It is a broad comedy about two brothers from a banana plantation in rural Mexico who are spotted by a football talent scout and given the chance to live the dream playing for top teams in Mexico City.
Fierce rivalry and contrasting personalities – Luna's hotheaded Beto, nicknamed Rudo (tough guy), and Bernal's easy-going dreamer Beto, or Cursi (corny) – divide the brothers, but they share a fatal naivety and inability to resist the excesses of the high life.
Underneath the knockabout comedy, Rudo y Cursi is also a satire of modern-day Mexico and its worship of celebrity, the bloated rural dreams of big-city wealth, and even the dark shadow of the drugs trade.
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