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Paul Morrissey, 1984, USA, 98 min. New 4K Restoration!
Following his vérité-exploitation trilogy of FLESH (1968), TRASH (1970) and HEAT (1972), as well as the one-two gore-soaked punch of FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN (1973) and BLOOD FOR DRACULA (1974) would have been a daunting task for most filmmakers, but most filmmakers were never quite as enterprising, resourceful or constantly ahead of their time as Paul Morrissey was. Spiritually and, in a sense, geographically tethered to 1982’s FORTY DEUCE, Morrissey’s freewheeling, vitriolic crime comedy MIXED BLOOD (1984) is the filmmaker at his most propulsive and, dare say, endearing.
A family film in the same sense as John Waters’s similarly acerbic FEMALE TROUBLE (1974), MIXED BLOOD concerns a Brazilian matriarch (played with zeal by Marília Pêra) in New York’s Alphabet City, who lives with her son and his gang of juvenile delinquents. In an attempt to control the drug trade below 14th Street, she starts a turf war, which only becomes more complicated due to a budding romance between her son and an outsider.
Paul Morrissey, 1984, USA, 98 min. New 4K Restoration!
Following his vérité-exploitation trilogy of FLESH (1968), TRASH (1970) and HEAT (1972), as well as the one-two gore-soaked punch of FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN (1973) and BLOOD FOR DRACULA (1974) would have been a daunting task for most filmmakers, but most filmmakers were never quite as enterprising, resourceful or constantly ahead of their time as Paul Morrissey was. Spiritually and, in a sense, geographically tethered to 1982’s FORTY DEUCE, Morrissey’s freewheeling, vitriolic crime comedy MIXED BLOOD (1984) is the filmmaker at his most propulsive and, dare say, endearing.
A family film in the same sense as John Waters’s similarly acerbic FEMALE TROUBLE (1974), MIXED BLOOD concerns a Brazilian matriarch (played with zeal by Marília Pêra) in New York’s Alphabet City, who lives with her son and his gang of juvenile delinquents. In an attempt to control the drug trade below 14th Street, she starts a turf war, which only becomes more complicated due to a budding romance between her son and an outsider.