Canoa: A Shameful Memory - Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Arturo Alegro (Blu-ray - 03/14/2017) [Special Edition / Criterion Collection]

One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema for the audaciousness of it's attack on the Catholic Church, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life massacre that occurred in 1968, eight years before the film's release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the isolated village of San Miguel de Canoa, who mistook them for communist revolutionaries. Intercutting depictions of the days in the workers' lives leading up to their journey and footage from a fictional documentary about the village and the autocratic priest who governs it with the scenes of the atrocity itself, director Felipe Cazals (Las inocentes) creates a terrifying sense of menace, capped by a gruesome denouement. Adopting a gritty newsreel style, Canoa is a daring historical document and a visceral expression of horror.

Condition:NEW.

Product details:
Actors: Enrique Lucero
Directors: Felipe Cazals
Format: Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Region: All Regions
Number of discs: 1
Rated: Unrated Not Rated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: March 14, 2017
Run Time: 115 minutes

Special 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 Cuaron and Cazals; Trailer; New English subtitle translation; Plus: An essay by critic Fernanda Solorzano

Cast & Crew:
Ernesto Gómez Cruz Actor
Arturo Alegro Actor
Jaime Garza Actor
Carlos Chávez Actor
Gerardo Vigil Actor
Rodrigo Puebla Actor
Malena Doria Actor
Enrique Lucero Actor
Salvador Sanchez Actor

Technical Credits:
Felipe Cazals Director
Tomas Perez Turrent Screenwriter