Himself
Eight years in the making, Boetticher’s portrait of his longtime friend, the famous bullfighter Carlos Arruza, was a labor of love that the renowned director of westerns pursued despite contending with illnesses, bankruptcy, jail time, and lucrative offers from Hollywood. The result is an astonishing work of poetry, immediacy, and violence that fearlessly wrestles with the filmmaker’s own ambivalence about the titular matador’s triumphs prior to his death by automobile accident at the age of 46.
Lt. Reyes
1836년, 당시 멕시코 영토였던 텍사스가 독립선언을 하자 멕시코의 독재자 산타아나는 토벌군을 파견하게 된다. 이에 텍사스 민병대는 산 안토니오 교외의 알라모로 몰아 붙인다. 민병대를 재조직 할 수 있는 시간을 벌기 위해 알라모 요새를 사수하려 하는 산타아나, 그러나 요새안에 있는 병력은 불과 200여명도 남지 않게 된다. 7천여명의 대부대를 이끌고 알라모로 진격하는 멕시코군들과 이를 몸으로 막아내는 알라모 수비대원들의 사투가 벌어진다.
Himself
The life of the famed Mexican bullfighter Luis Procuna, from his boyhood through his training and the triumphs that followed as Procuna rose to the peak of his profession. Written by Jim Beaver
The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from the era.
Carlos / Fernando
Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one. Meanwhile...
