Arruza
1972
Rated NR
· ⭐ 6 · Votes: 2
“He Was Number One - THE BEST...And He Died That Way!”
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.
CANYON
