Matador
Southeast Asian Premiere
Pedro Almodóvar Spain 1986 102 min R21 (Mature Content and Sexual Scenes)
Almodóvar explores the intoxicating relationship between pleasure and death through the convergence of bullfighting and murder.
Diego, a retired bullfighter, mentors aspiring matadors and finds his pleasure in gory thriller-horror films and killing his lovers. One of his students is Ángel, played by a young Antonio Banderas, a sexually repressed young man who confesses to crimes he did not commit. This piques the interest of María, an enigmatic lawyer whose pursuit of the case leads her to a fateful and passionate encounter with Diego.
Marking a stylistic turn from his naturalistic early works, Matador is a subversive erotic thriller that plunges into a darkly comic and profanely surreal exploration of desire. Newly restored in 4K, it traces the dangerous space between sex and death through the rituals of bullfighting and murderous intimacy.
Synopsis Writer: Gabriel Goh
30 Nov, Sun 7:00PM / 102 min
Oldham Theatre
5 Dec, Fri 4:30PM / 102 min
Oldham Theatre
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Matador
Matador
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
1986
Spanish
English
102 min
R21 (Mature Content and Sexual Scenes)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar is an acclaimed Spanish filmmaker renowned for his complex and eccentric characters, as well as daring explorations of desire, transgression and identity in post-Franco Spain. Blending melodrama and camp, with classic Hollywood influences, Almodóvar is one of the most distinctive voices in world cinema today.
Nacho Martínez,
Assumpta Serna,
Antonio Banderas
Andrés Vicente Gómez
