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'My Tender Matador' ('Tengo miedo torero'): Film Review | Venice 2020

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An aging drag queen and a guerilla fighter become unlikely bedfellows in the Chilean drama My Tender Matador (Tengo miedo torero).

This adaptation of Pedro Lemebel’s essential novel has been mostly turned into an atmospheric chamber piece by writer-director Rodrigo Sepulveda (Aurora), who directs Chilean acting great Alfredo Castro (Tony Manero)in a finely limned performance as the nameless protagonist (referred to as “Queen of the Corner” in the book).

After Castro’s turn in last year’s prison fantasy drama The Prince, which bowed in the Critics’ Week sidebar in Venice, My Tender Matador, which premieres in the festival’s Giornate degli autori section, marks Castro’s second major queer role in as many years to premiere on the Lido.

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