Cassandro, the Exotico!

2018

Documentary

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 85% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60%
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 485 485

wrestling mutilated body violent sport documentary

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Plot summary

After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts on the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself.

Director

Marie Losier Photo
Marie Losier

Top cast

Cassandro Photo
Cassandro as Self
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714.48 MB
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English 2.0
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1 hr 17 min
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English 5.1
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Alan W 6 / 10

Director Marie Losier's independent documentary on the cross-dressing

Director Marie Losier's independent documentary on the cross-dressing, openly gay Mexican wrestler-superstar is an intimate portrait of a man of many contradictions who fought his way into acceptance and (unlikely) popularity in a sport that's often jacked up on homophobic masculinity yet at the same time, camp as Christmas. Showing on MUBI now, this film, shot on 16mm, lasts all of 73mins and it feels like I'm watching someone's home video. With no frills or gimmicks, the presentation is as straight-laced and ordinary as its subject matter isn't. Cassandro may be a glamorous character in the ring, but behind the scene, it is pure hard work and dogged persistence. While the film touches on his humble beginnings, as well as his decades-long animosity with his father (which has been reconciled), they are not delved in particularly deeply – something a different documentary might have spent more time on. Relegating all that to the past instead, the only backward looking this film does in any detail is his rise to fame in the lucha libre business from villain to hero. But even that is just to set the background for the real focus here: the physical toll the sport has taken on him and how he is handling the possibility that his 26-years long career of pain and suffering, both on and off the ring, is about to (or has already) end(ed). For someone who find wrestling generally a fascinating and somewhat sexy contradiction in and of itself, this is an attractive, enthralling and ultimately bittersweet view that's worthy of 3 stars. For those who don't, it will only be of passing curiosity value, so it's more of a 2 stars affair.
Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

The greatest 01 hour: and 13 minutes of

The greatest 01 hour: and 13 minutes of wrestling ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

Un relato crudo e íntimo que retrata a

Un relato crudo e íntimo que retrata a la perfección el sufrimiento del ser al ser diferente del resto
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