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Matador
1986 - Pedro Almodóvar - 100 mins - Spain
Fri 22 Feb 2002 at 8.30pm
Joyce's Lounge, Tuamgraney, Co. Clare
Midnight Court Rating: 5.0 (1 votes)
Antonio Banderas portrays Angel, a wealthy, hyper-sensitive and tormented
young bullfighting apprentice who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy
from watching clouds. When the instructor questions Angel's sexuality he decides
to prove his manhood by raping the instructor's young girlfriend, a model,
but inspires her contempt rather than fear as he fails even at that. Angel
turns himself in to the police for what he believes to be a successful violation
and he also confesses to murders -- that were committed by his lawyer (Assumpta
Serna). "The movie," says Almodovar, "evokes a very abstract
feeling of the two Spains represented by the two mothers in the story. A modern
Spain and liberal one is embodied by Chus Lampreave in the role of the mother
of the model (Eva Cobo), a spontaneous woman without preconceived ideas. The
other mother, interpreted by Julieta Serrano, represents what is the worst
in Spain, a castrating mother who is the cause of the psychosis of her child.
She generates a terrible inferiority complex, a mother that is terrible in
Spanish religious manners."
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