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Matador
SPAIN · 1986

Matador

Pedro Almodóvar
obsession with death sexual desire and violence false confession moral ambiguity forbidden attraction
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Synopsis

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

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I watched Fassbinder's films again, particularly Querelle... The film itself didn't influence Matador, because it's completely different, but the general concept of desire in Querelle and its visual abstraction might have influenced me.

The film itself didn't influence Matador, because it's completely different, but the general concept of desire in Querelle and its visual abstraction might have influenced me.

— Pedro Almodóvar  ·  Almodóvar on Almodóvar (collected interviews by Frédéric Strauss), p. 48
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