News: Gael Garcia Bernal

Rising star Garcia Bernal is currently in two films on general release – the Oscar-tipped Babel being joined this week by The Science of Sleep. Having done a couple of English language flicks (he was trained in London, after all), it’s back to Spanish and boosting the Latin American film industry, with two Mexican flicks and one from Argentina for the star of the hit Mexican flick Y tu mamá también.

Argentinian flick El Pasado will see Bernal play a man who, on splitting from his wife and hooking up with another woman, can’t seem to shake off his ex, while Mexican movie Rudo y Cursi, his latest team up with the director of Y tu mamá también, Alfonso Cuarón, looks set to revolve around the world of football, giving Garcia Bernal a chance to go a bit more physical than his usually philosophical roles allow. After that, it’s time for the young actor to make his directorial debut, in which he will also star, with Déficit, revolving around a family reunion in Mexico in which the two family branches are of decidedly different social backgrounds. He’s certainly on the up, this chap.