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Here s the official US trailer (+ poster) for Rodrigo Sepúlveda s
My Tender Matador, from YouTube:
My Tender Matador tells a story that takes place amid the political turmoil during 1980s Chile. Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely cross-dresser and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. This lonely cross-dresser engages in a risky clandestine operation after falling in love with the guerrilla who asks them to hide dangerous secrets of the revolution at home in Chile.
My Tender Matador is directed by Chilean filmmaker
A Thief and His Wife,
Padre Nuestro, and
Aurora previously, as well as many shorts and lots of other TV work in Chile. The screenplay is written by Rodrigo Sepúlveda and Juan Elias Tovar, based on the novel by Pedro Lemebel. This premiered in the Venice Days sidebar at the Venice Film Festival last year. Freestyle Digital Media will release Sepúlveda s