Changing the game, one match at a time.
The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.
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Classical in form, raw, resolved and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- earnestironic
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20237/10
Gael García Bernal is great in this entertaining biopic of the eponymous wrestler who rose from Texan oblivion and poverty to international acclaim. We learn fairly early on that he and his mother "Jocasta" (Perla De La Rosa) get by after his father abandoned them by working loads of different jobs and by him taking on the role of an "exotico" - a sort of "glamour" wrestler - in a makeshift garage where his job is to camp things up and then get beaten by a guy twice his size. Aside from the fact that it hurts, he decides that he wants a new home for him and his mum, and that he also has the skill to take things a bit further professionally. Together with his new-found, kick-ass, trainer "Sabrina" (Roberta Colindrez) he decides to create the new character of "Cassandro" to become the first of his creed to actually win! What now ensues is quite a messy film, technically - the editing and continuity are not very good, but the sheer charisma of the star as he portrays this openly gay man in a world that offers him little but hostility is frequently quite amusing and engaging to watch. There's a little bit of (complicated) love interest for him, too, but essentially it's Bernal hamming
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Cast
- Gael García BernalSaúl "Cassandro"
- Roberta ColindrezSabrina
- Perla de la RosaYocasta
- Joaquín CosíoLorenzo
- Raúl CastilloGerardo
- El Hijo del SantoEl Hijo del Santo
- Bad BunnyFelipe
- GigánticoMurder Clown
- Yavor VesselinovPete
- Leonardo AlonsoEl Mysterioso
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- Roger Ross WilliamsDirector
- Roger Ross WilliamsScreenplay
- David TeagueScreenplay
- Matías PenachinoDirector of Photography
- Marcelo ZarvosOriginal Music Composer
- Affonso GonçalvesEditor
- Sabine HoffmanEditor
- Yibrán AsuadEditor
- David BloomfieldProducer
- Ted HopeProducer
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