Awareness of mortality ultimately gives life its meaning, a truth explored through Harold and Maude (1971) and Y tu mamá también (2001). In both films, the presence of death, embodied in the older women, Maude and Luisa, awakens younger men to the urgency and fragility of existence. Set within different cultural landscapes, each story approaches mortality differently, with one as a performative assertion of freedom, the other as a quiet, inescapable reality woven into social

A look into Anthony Bourdain’s exploration of Hanoi, engagement with its people, and the sore thumb of the leader of the free world that tries to understand what made Tony special, under the pressure of historical weight and buff secret service men.