Cassandro
Changing the game, one match at a time.
6.8 / 10
107 minutes
2023-09-14
English
MX
Actors :
Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla de la Rosa, Joaquín Cosío, Raúl Castillo, El Hijo del Santo, Bad Bunny, Gigántico, Yavor Vesselinov, Leonardo Alonso, Carmen Ledesma, Javier Escobar, Lorenzo Constantini, Jorge Andrés Zerecero, Robert Salas
Description
The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.
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CinemaSerf
9/20/2023, 10:11:14 AM
Gael García Bernal is great in this entertaining biopic of the eponymous wrestler who rose from Texan oblivion and poverty to international acclaim. We learn fairly early on that he and his mother "Jocasta" (Perla De La Rosa) get by after his father abandoned them by working loads of different jobs and by him taking on the role of an "exotico" - a sort of "glamour" wrestler - in a makeshift garage...