Sand and Blood (1988)
- 1988
- ·101 min
El toreo, la música, la medicina, el cambio y las posibilidades homoeróticas se mezclan en este estudio de la amistad.
Francisco es un torero en ascenso, por lo que concentrado ni siquiera el sexo atrae su interés.
- Actores
- André Dussollier·Clémentine Célarié·Patrick Catalifo·Sami Frey
- Dirigido por
- Jeanne Labrune
- Género
- Drama
- Idioma
- French
- País
- France
- Director
- Jeanne Labrune
The title recalls the silent Rudolph Valentino classic 'Blood and Sand', and not without good reason: although made in France the film is set close enough to the Spanish border for some overlap of culture, in particular the corrida de toros. Strictly speaking, it isn't a bullfighting film at all, but more of a male bonding character study, about an ambitious matador who becomes disillusioned after befriending a sensitive doctor with a profound dislike of the sport dating back to his childhood during the Spanish Civil War.
The build-up of sexual and emotional tension between the two men is riveting and suspenseful. Nicely acted, nicely produced.
Manuel is a Spanish émigré to France. Now a doctor his family left Franco's Spain during the worst of the troubles (and only after his grandfather had been machine-gunned with other dissidents in the local bullring).
