Matador (film)

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Movie
German title Matador
Original title Matador
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1986
length 110 minutes
Rod
Director Pedro Almodovar
script Pedro Almodovar
production Andrés Vicente Gómez
music Bernardo Bonezzi
camera Ángel Luis Fernández
cut José Salcedo
occupation

Matador is a Spanish fiction film by the director Pedro Almodóvar from 1986. The film describes the sadomasochistic relationship between the aging bullfighter Diego ( Nacho Martinez ) and the mysterious lawyer Maria ( Assumpta Serna ) and the related experiences of the young bullfighter Angel ( Antonio Banderas ). It is the fifth film by Almodóvar.

action

The shy young Angel stands under the thumb of his strictly religious mother, cannot see any blood and wants to become a bullfighter.

To prove his manliness to his morbid teacher Diego and to get rid of his virginity, he tries to rape Diego's girlfriend Eva in the pouring rain on a street corner. The attempt fails. Since the girl does not report him, the embarrassed young man, longing for punishment, finally confesses to several murders that he did not commit. However, he knows that his public defender Maria perpetrated it.

The erotic young lawyer shares the aging matador's fascination with death. Her passion is to seduce men and to poke a hairpin in the neck at the time of their orgasm, thus murdering them. While a love triangle develops between passion and a longing for death, the policeman searches for the perpetrator. The sadomasochistic relationship between Maria and Diego ends in the couple's death together.

Awards (excerpt)

The film received several international awards:

  • 1986:
  • 1987:
    • Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto, International Fantasy Film Award
      • Julieta Serrano (Best Actress)
      • Pedro Almodóvar (Best Director)
    • Sant Jordi Awards , Sant Jordi
      • Assumpta Serna (Best Spanish Actress)

reception

For the lexicon of international film , Matador is a “kitschy mythology of death and passion that seeks to benefit from the aura of bullfighting; the stale potpourri of cinematic quotations is exhausted without any spark of irony in the purely formalistic reference. "

backgrounds

literature

  • Marcus Stiglegger: Corrida of love under a dying sun - sadomasochism and bullfighting in Pedro Almodovar's MATADOR. In: Icons. No. 0/1, autumn 2002, ISSN  1610-9368

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matador. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Film links from Matador on imdb.com
  3. ↑ Filming locations of Matador on imdb.com