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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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
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