Chile’s Forastero has shared with Variety the first trailer for it is highly anticipated, pan-Latin American co-production “My Tender Matador,” staring the country’s most prolific lead actor Alfredo Castro “The Club”).
Co-produced by Forestero in Chile, Tornado in Argentina, Caponeto in Mexico and Zapik Films in Chile, the feature is directed by Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa and based on the the novel by celebrated Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel, a figure decades ahead of his time is his advocacy of gender issues, in an archly conservative Chile under and after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Turning on an intimate friendship, the 1986-set feature tells the story of an impoverished, elderly, cross-dresser known as the Queen of the Corner (Castro). After falling in love with a charming guerrilla, the character gets swept up in a covert anti-Pinochet operation.
In the trailer we see the first encounter between the two, and the...
Co-produced by Forestero in Chile, Tornado in Argentina, Caponeto in Mexico and Zapik Films in Chile, the feature is directed by Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa and based on the the novel by celebrated Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel, a figure decades ahead of his time is his advocacy of gender issues, in an archly conservative Chile under and after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Turning on an intimate friendship, the 1986-set feature tells the story of an impoverished, elderly, cross-dresser known as the Queen of the Corner (Castro). After falling in love with a charming guerrilla, the character gets swept up in a covert anti-Pinochet operation.
In the trailer we see the first encounter between the two, and the...
- 6/19/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid, Nov 22 (Ians/Efe) Diego 'El Cigala', Remedios Amaya and Enrique 'El Negri' Heredia have joined together to bring out the album 'Mexico Flamenco', which goes on sale this week and fuses flamenco with Mexican standards.
Works by Agustin Lara, Jose Jose, Vicente Fernandez and Jose Alfredo Jimenez are reborn with Gypsy voices, while Catalan singer Silvia Perez Cruz and Venezuela's Oscar d'Leon perform a duo with El Cigala.
This fusion of 21st-century flamenco with traditional Mexican songs also features several other stars, such as Montse Cortes, Vicente 'Parrita' Castro, Guadiana, Jose 'Sorderita' Soto, Aurora.
Works by Agustin Lara, Jose Jose, Vicente Fernandez and Jose Alfredo Jimenez are reborn with Gypsy voices, while Catalan singer Silvia Perez Cruz and Venezuela's Oscar d'Leon perform a duo with El Cigala.
This fusion of 21st-century flamenco with traditional Mexican songs also features several other stars, such as Montse Cortes, Vicente 'Parrita' Castro, Guadiana, Jose 'Sorderita' Soto, Aurora.
- 11/22/2011
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
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