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SPAIN · 1986

Matador

Pedro Almodóvar
Spanish Cinema Post-Franco obsession with death sexual desire and violence false confession moral ambiguity forbidden attraction
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Synopsis

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

Year1986
CountrySpain
DirectorPedro Almodóvar
MovementSpanish Cinema Post-Franco
Cinematic Threads
I watched Fassbinder's films again, particularly Querelle... The film itself didn't influence Matador, because it's completely different, but the general concept of desire in Querelle and its visual abstraction might have influenced me.
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