Meche
Carreno in her Break-Out Role as she was meant to be seen
FULLY UNCUT ORIGINAL PRINT
Original Spanish/Mexican Title: LA SANGRE ENEMIGA [The Blood
Enemy]
director: Rogelio A Gonzalez
starring: Mercedes Carreno (Meche Carreno) · David Reynoso · Emilio
'Indio' Fernandez
'Poor
White Trash' Mexican-style, based on the scorching novel by bestselling
author Luis Spota. Here is a movie filled strife and raw emotions complicated
by incest and Lolita-esque rape, as well as themes of murder, sexual abuse,
thievery, deformity and coming-of-age trauma. This highly controversial
motion picture - constantly the target for censorship throughout the country
- was 'legitimized' by a high-profile campaign of praise from Mexico's
#1 actor/director Emilio Indio Fernandez (best known Internationally for
his role of Gen. Mapache in Sam Peckinpah's Wild Bunch,
but respected in Mexico as an awardwinning filmmaker for more than 50
years. Because of his insistence that this movie was a prime example of
Nuevo Cine Mexicano (New Mexican Cinema), Indio said it "must
be embraced not condemned." He took a costarring role to punctuate
his point.
As a
result, despite strict censorship attempts by both the government and
the Catholic Church, the film was a huge boxoffice hit in 1971. Of course,
much of its popularity is attributed to the constant nude scenes of young
Meche Carreņo (she would continue as a top-tier Mexican actress
for the next decade, even snagging some best performer awards). The story
deals with a troupe of street performers who live together like animals
in makeshift shanty shacks, prisoners of their own base instincts, sexual
frustration and, of course, extreme poverty. This group of misfits is
led by Esteban - crippled and impotent from a train accident - who attempts
to maintain a life with his retarded son and child-bride Sara (actually,
his former stepdaughter).
A Mexican
film with optional English subtitles; original fullscreen format.
Fully uncut 118 minutes; DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT.
Graphic
Violence/Nudity/Rape/Incest/Strong Sexual Themes
for Adult Audiences
 Fully Uncut w/ Meche Carreno](Images/vd4175_1.jpg "BLOOD ENEMY [Sangre Enemiga](1971) Fully Uncut w/ Meche Carreno")
