Born in Mexico, he has worked there and overseas, like his gifted friends and contemporaries Alfonso Cuarón (born 1961) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (born 1963). Isn’t it time to start talking about a new Mexican Cinema, not always filmed in Mexico but always informed by the imagination and spirit of the nation? Think of del Toro’s remarkable films, and then consider too Cuarón’s Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (the best-looking Potter film), Great Expectations (an overlooked masterpiece), and Y tu Mama Tambien. Or Iñárritu’s Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel.
