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Canoa: A Shameful Memory (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Review One of Mexico’s best-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 de Canoa, who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist revolutionaries. Intercutting footage from a fictional documentary about the village with gruesome scenes of the crime itself, director Felipe Cazals produced a daring commentary on the climate of violence and repression in Mexico during that era, including the military’s infamous massacre of demonstrating students in Tlatelolco, Mexico City. With its gritty newsreel style, Canoa is a visceral expression of horror as well as an important historical document. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES-New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Felipe Cazals, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack -New introduction by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro-New conversation between filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and Cazals-Trailer-New English subtitle translation-PLUS: An essay by critic Fernanda Solórzano


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No


MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)


Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.92 Ounces


Audio Description: ‏ ‎ English, Spanish


Item model number ‏ : ‎ 43449020


Director ‏ : ‎ Felipe Cazals


Media Format ‏ : ‎ Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen


Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 55 minutes


Release date ‏ : ‎ March 14, 2017


Actors ‏ : ‎ Enrique Lucero


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    • Not for the faint of heart...
An authentic Mexican film epic that's based on the true story of a corrupt Catholic priest who manipulates his flock to murder a group of students who he thinks are communist revolutionaries (The 1968 San Miguel Canoa Massacre). The film explores religious fanaticism, mob mentality, ideological manipulation, and the horrors of the virulent and grisly violence that has plagued Mexico since the country's founding. Yeah, def not for the kiddos... ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 20, 2023 by AMADEO
    • Mob Psychology, Scapegoats, A Potent Statement!
"Canoa" (1976) is a powerful, very evocative Mexican film based upon a "reportedly real incident" that took place in 1968. Canoa was a town near the city of Puebla that was under the thrall of a venal and corrupt priest with his hand in every till. He stirred up the population about Communists and rebellious rabble rousers who he claimed would cause dire trouble for the town. It was a poor place with a largely Indian population that had hardscrabble farming conditions due to the effects of erosion. The land had been stripped of its forestation for wood and charcoal. A loudspeaker broadcast propaganda to the town and was used by the priest as a conduit (along with his sermons) for his hate-mongering. The priest, wearing sun glasses like a mobster boss, ran every aspect of the town, but his supporters said that he was the one who had brought the telephone, electricity, the highway and water to the town fountain. He charged for those who used the fountain as a water supply. The movie is told almost as a documentary with characters speaking before the camera. It has captions depicting the time and date. Five engaging, carefree young male employees of the University of Puebla were making a mountain climbing trip. Their bus lets them off in Canoa where their expedition is interrupted by a severe rain storm. They seek overnight shelter in the town. Word spread that these five are student agitators similar to the leftist university dissidents who caused trouble in some of Mexico's large cities. The mob scenes in which the large crowds are surging through the streets hunting down the "troublemakers" carrying pitchforks. torches and tool-weapons are not done as cleverly as they could have been because they are too reminiscent of the Transylvania mobs pursuing Frankenstein's monster. While the climbers took refuge in a peasant house, a mob forms with a lynching psychology. The way mob psychology is created and proliferated is handled very well in the film. Suspense builds as the crowd swells and grows more agitated. The rioters set upon and viciously attack the outsiders, and several of the innocents are killed The priest is shown in a sermon rationalizing what has happened and in a scene (in civies) in which he is talking to the camera. He does not tell how he has manipulated the townspeople and imposed his will upon them by creating scapegoats and imaginary "enemies." There is a beautiful, "life goes on" scene at the end where the townspeople are having a folkloric celebration and ritualistic dance in colorful costumes which recall their Indian past. It's a movie that deserves a wider following because of its significance and also because of the way the story is developed and filmed. A fine production. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 11, 2009 by John F. Rooney
    • GRAN PELÍCULA, GRAN TRABAJO DE RESTAURACIÓN
Un transfer impecable de una película perfecta.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2019 by Saul Montoro
    • Five Stars
Wonderfully restored great movie and delivery was excellent. Thank you
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2017 by Amazon Customer
    • Five Stars
A great film, I can't wait until it gets the full treatment one day though.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2014 by DG
    • CANOA
A VERY MASTER WORK, NO WONDER IS ONE OF THE BEST MEXICAN FILMS. VERY IMPRESSIVE AND REALISTIC!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 26, 2009 by HUETMICH
    • A Visceral, Savage, Intelligent Film.
"Canoa" is a savage, brilliant work that is usually looked over when Mexican cinema is discussed, especially now when a general audience's experience with Mexican film usually consists of just "Amores Perros" or "Pan's Labyrinth," some of course know of the great Luis Bunuel's highly influential work. But here is a film that should be seen wherever available, it is a visceral mix of politics, violence and realism. "Canoa" chronicles the brutal assault on a group of Mexican youths by a town ruled over by a corrupt priest who poisons the inhabitants' minds with warnings about Communist hordes threatening to invade. The year is 1968 and Mexico is experiencing the same kind of political upheaval by student movements felt all around the world, it is a time when just being associated with a university means being associated with radical, Leftist politics. In this atmosphere a group of Mexican youths go on a road trip to and end-up trapped by rain in tiny Canoa, a dark place which director Felipe Cazals introduces us with great detail at the beginning. Through an observant campesino we learn about the town and its people, and how a corrupt priest has declared himself the government of the place, ruling over every aspect of the town's life. When the students arrive he stirs the people into a frenzy already made toxic by stories coming out of the cities claiming that the student movement is lead by Communists who seek to destroy the Catholic Church. The story of the events in Canoa has been somewhat buried when Mexico's history of the 1960s is discussed, probably because the lynching of the group of youths took place a month before the notorious massacre of Tlatelolco in Mexico City where hundreds of marching students were butchered by the military, that event remains the key moment of 1968 in Mexico and has of course, overshadowed or even buried the events of Canoa. But Felipe Cazal's film more than makes-up for a lack of extensive scholarship considering his film is almost a documentary, in fact Cazal directed a documentary short on this subject before making the feature film. The eye for detail is highly impressive and Cazal's masterfully informs us with facts, dates, times and names while at the same time keeping us gripped and horrified. Like the best historical dramas, "Canoa" works as both an enlightening film and as pure entertainment. "Canoa" also succeeds as a complex psychological study. The film deals with various themes such as mob violence, political propaganda and religious fanaticism. Cazals captures vividly how an entire society can be whipped into a frenzy with pure scare tactics and a manipulation of sacred cultural symbols and beliefs. The events in this film can happen anywhere and do. Much of the hysteria over Communists that we see in "Canoa" is happening today in America over Muslims or illegal immigrants. Cazal's brilliantly captures how each stage of paranoia in the town leads to higher levels of suspicion and ultimately violence. He sets up the world of the film with pure realism, fully transporting us to the world of the characters. The cinematography is both arresting but gritty, scenes are nicely framed, but the images are of a decaying, rotting town where evil rules. The violence in "Canoa" is very real and very raw, Cazals has probably filmed one of the best sequences ever exploring the brutality of mob violence with shots and scenes that terrify in the way they capture human brings reduced to raving lunatics and bloodthirsty monsters. And of course Cazals does a great job capturing the Mexico of 1968 and the political debates and conflicts which were raging at the time. The youths themselves are not Leftists, or at least officially aligned with the student movement, but they can't escape the effect the movement is having on society. The film never feels like just a horror show in the spirit of 70s b-flicks because it does have a real political conscience. Cazals doesn't just blame the town's priest for what happened, but the entire Mexican system which viewed the students as a threat and programmed the citizenry to see them as such. "Canoa" deserves comparison to the best works of Costa Gavras and that other great Mexican film of the turbulent year of 1968, "Rojo Amanecer." This is an overlooked masterpiece that anyone interested in foreign cinema and political films should certainly take a look at. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2008 by Robert Blake

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