Matador (film)
| Matador | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Written by | Pedro Almodóvar Jesús Ferrero |
| Produced by | Andrés Vicente Gómez |
| Starring | Antonio Banderas, Assumpta Serna |
Release date | 1986 |
Running time | 110 min |
| Language | Spanish |
Matador (Spanish for "killer") is a 1986 film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar about a student matador, Ángel (Antonio Banderas), who confesses to murders he didn't commit and begins a romance with his lawyer, María (Assumpta Serna). Themes include sex, death, and religion.
Plot
Diego Montes (Martínez) is a bullfighter, forced into early retirement by a horn-inflicted injury. He then switches his prey from bulls to women: after making love to them, he finds that killing them is his only way of reliving the intense emotions of the sunny afternoons of his past.
María Cardenal (Serna) is a criminal lawyer who secretly admires the art of the killer. During climax she kills her companions, recalling in her crimes the mythic ritual of bullfighting.
The two solitary accomplices, submerged in a world opposed to their nature, must meet, and no one, not even themselves, will be able to avoid the inevitable.
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