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Cassandro, the Exotico!

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France · 2018
1h 13m
Director Marie Losier
Starring Saúl Armendáriz
Genre Documentary

After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts on the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending, cross-dressing group of Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself.

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Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene

It wouldn’t be fair to call the film hagiographic, but the director’s empathy, if not love, for her subject hinders her from examining Cassandro’s wounds with much depth.

80

The New Yorker by Richard Brody

[Losier] revels in Cassandro’s offstage charisma and in his acrobatic artistry while also revealing the authentic violence of the sport’s blatant artifice.

80

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

“Cassandro,” which recalls the grabbed verve of a ‘60s-era verité snapshot, charts the reluctant dimming of this extravagant icon with affectionate energy and lasting poignance.

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