Battle In Heaven opens with a controversial sex scene involving beauty, Ana (Anapola Mushkadiz), and the beast, Marcos (Marcos Hernández). Marcos is Ana’s chauffeur, who has kidnapped and accidentally killed a baby. Ana, a general’s daughter by day and a prostitute by night, confides in Marcos and performs sexual favors for him in order to persuade him to turn himself in. She is too young, however, to understand Marcos’s confused mental state, and her sensitive position with him puts her in peril. This film’s merit is based in its experimental energy, and any director who follows up graphic sex scenes with a cut to the waving of the country’s flag (in this case Mexico’s) has my respect.
