Matador (4K Restoration)

R 18 +

Pedro ALMODÓVAR
Spain
1986
106min

Nominees and Awards

★ 2025 Venice Film Festival
★ 1989 Special Award, National Society of Film Critics Awards

Synopsis

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, 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. Newly restored in 4K, it traces the dangerous space between sex and death through the rituals of bullfighting and murderous intimacy.

Team

Director

Pedro ALMODÓVAR

Pedro ALMODÓVAR is an iconic Spanish auteur whose acclaimed films include All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Bad Education, and Parallel Mothers. He received the Venice Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2019, while The Room Next Door won the festival's Golden Lion in 2024.