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Canoa [videorecording (DVD)] : a shameful memory / a Felipe Cazals film.

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Criterion Collection, 2017.

Political violence -- Mexico -- Drama.

San Miguel Canoa (Mexico) -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 862.

[videorecording (DVD)] :

Director-Approved DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (115 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.

DVD release of the 1976 docudrama motion picture.

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer ; new introduction by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro ; new conversation between filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and Cazals ; trailer ; PLUS: an essay by critic Fernanda Solórzano.

In Spanish with optional English subtitles.

Screenplay by Tomás Pérez Turrent ; directed by Felipe Cazals.

Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sanchez and Ernesto Gómez Cruz.

"One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist revolutionaries. Director Felipe Cazals adopts a gritty documentary style to narrate the events in Canoa while referencing the climate of political repression that would lead to the massacre of student protesters in Mexico City shortly thereafter. The resulting film is a daring commentary on ideological manipulation, religious fanaticism, and mass violence, as well as a visceral expression of horror."--Container.

Adventure films.

Political films.

Cazals, Felipe, 1937-

Lucero, Enrique.

Sánchez, Salvador, 1943-

Gómez Cruz, Ernesto.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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