The English translation is "And Your Mother Too," and this sexy coming-of-age road movie has enough male and female nudity to qualify as soft core porn--but deserving none of the stigma attached to that label.

The plot concerns the search for a fabled beach by two free-spirited 17-year-old Mexican boys Julio and Tenoch (Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna) who bring with them and a 28-year-old Spanish beauty named Luisa (Maribel Verdú), who has decided to leave her husband and family. Why Lucia would remain with these two sexually immature young men is one of the questions that nag the viewer throughout. The question gets answered in the last two minutes of the film and it is totally unexpected. But it will make you want to go back and see the film again to pick up the subtle clues.

During the weekend journey to the beach, secrets are shared and by the end of the trip sexual contact has occurred in every possible combination among the three road-trippers. Frank treatment of its two young male characters' burgeoning sexuality makes this unrated film a real eye-opener, but it's never prurient or juvenile.

The natural look of the film onscreen perfectly matches the boys' raw language and the willingness of the camera to follow characters into bedrooms, bathrooms, or behind closed shutters. The sex scenes are explicit, but there are no gratuitous close-ups. But you definitely know every detail of what is going on. One poolside scene involves the two guys and is particularly jarring, yet it is necessary to reveal the depth of the two friend's relationship to each other before the woman comes between them. In fact all of the intimate scenes are obviously there not for the titillation of the audience but to bring characters closer to understanding each other, peeling away aspects of personality never before revealed to each other.

The movie's cinematography captures the real Mexico and explains a lot about it by relating everyday stories in certain locations. The viewer will leave not only having seen a friendship go through many changes, but also understanding a bit more of the mysteries of Mexico as a culture.

The film has a voice-over narration to provide additional background information at key moments, weaving the three lives and those they touch into a memorable tapestry of fun, friendship, and fate. Telling us the fate of a local fisherman or a roadside family while interesting, is distracting and a bit misplaced. Only at the very end of the film does the narration help tie up loose ends and bring the story to its poignant conclusion.

No doubt if you can understand Spanish, you will understand so much more. The English subtitles are fine, but they can't translate completely the subtleties of the dialog, which is the key to understanding the real beauty of this movie.