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Growing up in Granada, Spain, young David Fandila always dreamed of being a matador. This documentary captures the rise of "El Fandi," one of Spain's most renowned bullfighters, who first entered the ring at age 14. While it's never in doubt that Fandila is at the top of his game, filmmakers Stephen Higgins and Nina Gilden Seavey weigh the ...
The subject is the bloody and romantic sport of bullfighting, as seen through the eyes of a people with an almost religious love for the art. In this film we are introduced to the amazing David Fandila, and his supportive family, as he grows into Spain's most legendary matador.
Ella Es el Matador reveals the surprising history of the women who made such a law necessary and offers fascinating profiles of two female matadors currently in the arena: the acclaimed Mari Paz Vega and neophyte Eva Florencia. These women are gender pioneers by necessity.
25 gru 2017 · Matador, 1986. A dashing former matador named Diego Montes (Nacho Martínez), prematurely retired after a career-ending injury, rehearses the principal tenets of the art of the kill at a converted classroom on his estate to a group of aspiring bullfighters, including an unlikely, hypersensitive student named Angel Giménez (Antonio Banderas).
20 lis 2008 · Growing up in Granada, Spain, young David Fandila always dreamed of being a matador. This documentary captures the rise of "El Fandi," one of Spain's most renowned bullfighters, who first entered the ring at age 14.
4 paź 2023 · In his struggle to become Spain's top-ranked bullfighter, David Fandila confronts the sacrifices he must make to honor his ancestors' dying tradition.
Matador. In Pedro Almodóvar's Matador,lust, obsession, murder and Catholic guilt all play a part in a story set against the violent world of bullfighting. Featuring Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro) in one of his first roles, MATADOR is "a voluptuous mixture of black humor and subterranean sexuality." (Charles Taylor, Salon.com)
