Matador

Matador

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Release Date

3/7/1986

Runtime

105 mins

Overview

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

Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Budget

-

Revenue

$286,126

Homepage

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A baroque fever dream where desire and death become indistinguishable, watching two damaged souls collide in a spiral of transgression while innocence takes the fall. Almodóvar's most perverse and operatic, a film that's as seductive as it is repellent.

Mood

UnsettlingDread-soakedEuphoricDefiant

Themes

ObsessionIdentityMortalityFaith

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Propulsive

Look

High-contrastStylized genre

Structure

Nonlinear

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Sexual violenceGraphic violenceSexual content

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