Mixed Blood

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Audience Member Likely my favourite movie. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Outrageous Paul Morrissey cult film is weird, funny and violent. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Andy Warhol's regular director, Paul Morrissey, brings this unimpressive attempt at black humor in a comedy of manners, telling the story about two street gangs in a turf war in "Alphabet City" on the lower east side of New York City. What's meant to be funny and clever simply comes across as amateurish and condescending to it's subject matter. Weak! Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A gritty farce about gang warfare which does for "West Side Story" what director Paul Morrissey's later masterpiece "Spike of Bensonhurst" did for the "Rocky" and "Saturday night Fever" inspired Hollywood fantasies. Featuring a beautiful and distinctive cast (Richard Ulacia is framed exactly like Joe Dallesandro) of mostly non-professionals, artful Bressonian blocking. The opening sequence establishes a rhythm of exchanged and stolen glances which sets the pace for the music-of-looks that underline the characters relationships and suspicions of each other. Marilia Pera's mother figure/Brazilian gang leader is analogous to Ernest Borgnine's joyous mob boss in "Spike of Bensonhurst," and this is a similar social criticism and humored depiction of the triangulations necessary to maintaining a family amidst a crumbling social order and the strange and timeless relationship between race and the family unit ; also similarly racist (i.e. honest by today's standards) and moving as the latter film.The major difference is that with Mixed Blood Morrissey is more firmly tied to the formal design of his exacting blocking, as his young gang members march across the beautiful ruins of the lower east side tenements of 1984. The uplifting Carribean pop provides the hopeful frame to Morrissey's pessimistic and sardonic social view. A major sequence take place in a real nyc store devoted entirely to Menudo merchandise. The difficulty for critics to wrap their heads around Morrissey's work has much to do with how deeply permeating liberal humanistic truisms have become film culture. The final shot and exchange between mother and son is a perfectly articulated and poetic moment of abrupt limbo. Highly recommended. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member I am a great fan of Marilia Pera and she did not disappointed me at all in this movie. I really believe that some lines she delivered in Portuguese should have been translated, because they are really good and funny. The movie itself is tragically funny, but it is quite interesting to watch the East Village when it was a colored neighborhood. What a change... Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member More hilarious Morrissey. Over the top, goofy as hell dialogue delivered with crazy awesome accents. Richard Ulacia is like a semi-retarded Brazilian Udo Kier. This is good stuff. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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