‘Cassandro’ Sundance Film Festival Review: Gael Garcia Bernal Dazzles In The Ring As The ‘Liberace Of Lucha Libre’
deadline.comSo far nearly all the films I have been seeing for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival are based on true stories, from a teacher in Radical to a gay single father in San Francisco circa 70’s and 80’s to Michael J.
Fox as himself, and now yet another iconic character gets his story told on the big screen. World Premiering at Sundance tonight is Cassandro, a wild story of the first openly gay wrestler in the ultra macho sport of Mexico’s Lucha Libre.
Although the Lucha Libre and their outragous contingent known as the Exotico is a household name in Mexico, it is probably not well known outside of the country.
That is about to change thanks to this film which represents the narrative feature film debut of Oscar winning documentarian Roger Ross Williams (Life Animated) who became fascinated with the life of famed wrestler Saul Armendariz aka Cassandro when he made a short docu on his life.
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