Matador
by Pedro Almod?var
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Actor: Antonio Banderas, Assumpta Serna, Eva Cobo, Julieta Serrano, Nacho Mart?nezDirector: Pedro Almod?var
Cinematographer: ?ngel Luis Fern?ndez
Writer: Pedro Almod?var
Editor: Jos? Salcedo
Producer: Andr?s Vicente G?mez
Writer: Jes?s Ferrero
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 110 minutes
Release Date: 1989-10-26
Audience Rating: NC-17
Publisher: Cinevista Inc.
Studio: Cinevista Inc.
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Movie Review: Goodbye, "Machismo"
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a brilliant, if unsettling movie. On its surface, it revels in various sorts of violence, including attempted rape, bullfights gone bloody, and serial killings, real or imagined. Beneath the flashy surface, though, Almodovar has a serious aim. He's examining the effects on his contemporary Spanish characters of a religion that was frequently rigidified into pharisaism and a code of manly behavior often reduced to mere "machismo" during the immediately preceding reign of Franco. What he presents us with in the film is a set of characters malignly influenced by such cultural baggage. Though seriously disturbed, they are at the same time both moving and unwittingly comic. Diego, the gored bullfighter and Maria, the lawyer, both buy heavily into the "machismo" code and wind up confounding a delight in eros with a monstrous one involving death. At the center of the action, and perhaps the most disturbed by his culture's warped expectations is Angel (Antonio Banderas), who oscillates between a mother whose religion is stiflingly conceived and his own, hidden reverence for bullfighting. He is himself just an inexperienced youth furiously seeking possible paths to manhood. Like a child, he endearingly faints at the mere sight of blood. For this reason, he has to constantly reassure the curious around him, who themselves are suffering from a "machismo" cultural lag, that he is not in fact gay. No other explanation, after all, would fit their too narrow conception of manhood.
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