As a recent weekend visitor to Keswick, I was delighted when our friends included in our itinerary a visit to the Keswick Film Club’s Sunday 6th October offering of the Mexican film, ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’. How fortunate are the residents of this lovely Lakeland town to have opportunities to see critically acclaimed films again as well as up-to-the-minute box office releases in your historical Alhambra Cinema! One of the benefits of film club membership is the very helpful introduction and analysis of the day’s feature as given in person by one of the committee and in writing for later considered consumption. ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ is a classic rite of passage/road trip movie and we are swept along in the characters’ journeys of discovery. The contrasting themes of boastful machismo and sexual tenderness are examined against the vividness of the Mexican landscape and changing culture. At times, the film is halted and an authorial voice informs us of the existential dimensions such as, on the exact spot they drove over, a terrible accident had occurred exactly ten years before. This adds a thoughtful objectivity that, for me, gives the film an epic feel. The nudity may be shocking at first but these are not the images that remain. The thought-provoking, honest and touching ones do along with the cinematography and the outstanding acting. Thank you to Keswick Film Club for a memorable cinematic experience and for the inside information that we can look forward to seeing this exciting new talent (Gael Garcia Bernal) in the forthcoming film of Che Guevara’s ‘Motor Cycle Diaries’.