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Cassandro

Cassandro

6.7/ 10

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2023

Release Year

106 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

The true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso that rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life.

Keywords

sports
transvestite
entertainer
texas
wrestling
biography
based on true story
lgbt
mexican
mother son relationship

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7.0avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

September 20, 2023

7
7/10

Gael García Bernal is great in this entertaining biopic of the eponymous wrestler who rose from Texan oblivion and poverty to international acclaim. We learn fairly early on that he and his mother "Jocasta" (Perla De La Rosa) get by after his father abandoned them by working loads of different jobs

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