Gael Garcia Bernal

“Amores perros and I love this poster. I am going to state the absolute obvious of why I think this film is the first one that came to my attention and that I choose because this is how films started for me and it was many of us our first experience, Alejandro's first experience. I think it was Rodrigo Prieto the cinematographer, it was like his third movie or something. The Producers, it was their first movie. It was many of us, it was our first movie. So Perros of course, absolutely.”

“Memories of Underdevelopment. This for me is the most important film in Latin America. It is an incredibly modern story that had many interpretations, a great introspection on the soul of the Cuban Revolution, on the people that left, on the people that stayed. It is an incredibly sophisticated, intelligent kind of take on humanity and also on our sort of belief system. It's a really great movie.”

“Blow-Up. I love the films that have a character that is the worst person to solve a crime or solve a situation. This is a photographer that just discovers something and goes into a whole kind of an adventure that also is quite meaningless as well. I think nowadays if we look at it, we can see how much free time we had before we had telephones and Instagram and those kind of things. People would wonder and run into situations.”

“Purple Noon. This film, it was perhaps the first time that I captured this wonderful essence that many thrillers from France have, that they don't explain too much the psychology or the psychoanalysis behind why the characters do what they do. I love that the French don't do that. Life doesn't work like that, also cinema doesn't, but life even less so. This film is fantastic, I recommend it a lot and Alain Delon is very beautiful in this one, very gorgeous.”

“Y tu mamá también. I'm glad that they never change the title into English. I think I discovered cinema like properly, how to make cinema here with Alfonso Cuarón who included us in the making of this. The other thing that is very important is I want you to tell me which film has made you horny in the last years? There's not many. This one does. When you come out of the cinema watching this, you just want to live and have sex and enjoy and love people.”

“The Luis Buñuel collection. The stuff he threw out, the dramaturgy, the craziness, the concepts that he was talking about, it's so sophisticated and modern and yet with a lot of humor and a lot of intelligence. This collection has The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. I got to know really well Jean-Claude Carrière, the screenwriter of these films. He was such a mentor and such a wonderful person. Such a genius, this is how it ends with Luis Buñuel, the best director by far.”