Mixed Blood - 35MM | Directed by Paul Morrissey

Interview and Roxy Cinema present:

If, in 2024, Alphabet City resembles nothing so much as a retirement community for twenty-somethings, flashback forty years when all was going well for the thriving drug trade on New York’s Lower East Side—police, suppliers, and dealers had an arrangement that satisfied all, minimizing competition and maximizing profits. The last thing anyone wanted was a challenge to the system—a drug war in the streets. The last thing anyone expected was Rita La Punta and her gang of fifteen year old hoodlums—“the Maceteros”. “Life in a liberal toilet. . .” was how Morrissey characterized this funny, shocking, devastatingly ironic view of big city living. Marília Pêra (Pixote), Morrissey’s professed favorite actor, brilliantly portrays Rita La Punta, whose ambition and jealousy dominate the life of her son Thiago, played by Richard Ulacia alongside a group of newcomers (many cast from the streets) including the late Rodney Harvey. When a parent is asked in Mixed Blood, “Do you know where your children are?”, he replies, “I don’t know who the fuck my children are.” This ain’t the world of C. Aubrey Smith, Queen Victoria and Ronald Reagan. Welcome to what used to be New York City.